Sentences with phrase «factory town»

Mass MoCA is no exception; a campus in the former factory town of North Adams, the museum has been expanding for 25 years.

Set in roughly the late 1990s, it's a brief but unrelenting novel about growing up gay and poor in a small factory town in northern France.

Mass MoCA is no exception; a campus in the former factory town of North Adams,

Born in 1915 in the small factory town of Sturgis, Mich., Mr. Smith graduated from San Mateo Union High School in 1932.

When Black Panther star Danai Gurira was five - years - old, her parents moved her from Grinnell, Iowa, population 9,218, to their homeland of Harare, Zimbabwe — a bustling, urban city over two - and - a-half-thousand times bigger than the rural former factory town where she was born.

A documentary about the Medora Hornets, an underdog high school basketball team whose on - court struggles mirror the economic woes of its once - prosperous Indiana factory town.

He found his subject matter, in the new factory towns of northern New Jersey and in the light that animated them at dusk and dawn.

In the novel, the protagonist, much like Espen himself, runs away from the Danish factory town of his birth and finds work on board a British ship, where he meets Wakefield (Stuart Graham), an ill - tempered ne'er - do - well.

And the North Pole looks like a turn - of - the - century German factory town, filled with elves who not only look mass - produced but may have been, since they mostly have exactly the same features (this is not a cost - cutting device, but an artistic decision).

Attenberg / Greece (Director & Screenwriter: Athina Rachel Tsangari)-- Marina, a young woman living with her father in a decaying, seaside factory town, acquires a new perspective on the mysteries of human nature after she meets a stranger.

Smaller factory towns barely penetrate the national consciousness, dizzied by the shell game of today's global manufacturing: will they stay or will they go?

That mindset carries over to the Santa Fe, which is manufactured in a Hyundai factory town called Montgomery, Alabama.

He takes to the roads, as so many Chinese are doing now for the first time, driving on dirt tracks to the desert edges of the ancient empire and on brand - new highways to the mushrooming factory towns of the globalized boom.

Already translated into twenty languages, The End of Eddy captures the violence and desperation of life in a French factory town.

He feels his faith threatened by the materialistic, hedonistic society he sees around him in the slumping factory town of New Prospect, in northern New Jersey.

North Adams was an old factory town on the verge of extinction and now, after the creation of MASS MoCA, it is rising again like a phoenix.

I did a painting, Shoe City, based on the single - industry factory towns in China, in which the painting's physical landscape is somewhat washed out or desaturated in response to the particulate matter in the air, but also in response to the notion that maybe the landscape is secondary to what's being made in the factories.

A recent visit to China also resulted in a critique of proliferating Chinese factory towns.

Strong demand for wind power is fueling an economic engine supporting a record 105,500 U.S. wind jobs in farm and factory towns across the nation.»

Midwest location was a dying factory town in Indiana.

Back in 2000, we lived in a dying small Midwest factory town and those 3 properties weren't in the best areas.

¶ While Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is busy deleting the role of humankind in causing climate change from the state's websites, Eau Claire, the 68,000 - strong former factory town in northwestern Wisconsin, has adopted an ambitious sustainability plan to achieve carbon neutrality and to get 100 % of its energy from renewable sources.

MASS MoCA's rambling campus in the former factory town of North Adams, Massachusetts, has been 25 years in the making, and is now entering its third phase of development, starting with the rehabilitation of Building Six, a 120,000 - square - foot space that's able to be flexibly programmed to create «Museums within the Museum.»

Here, at the windy confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, it feels more southern than Midwest when you arrive at the old river port and factory town of Cairo, once made famous in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Given her beats, you may find her taking in art, chronicling the death of a factory town or touring suburban developments.

Economists as economists give little thought to the reasons that production in Indiana is more expensive or to the consequences of the closure to the factory town.

This is true alike of traditional agricultural communities and of factory towns.

When I was a kid in the 1970s in Dunkirk, a factory town west of Buffalo, I'd occasionally join a flood of children trying to sneak into the nearby Chautauqua County Fair: If my memory is correct after more than 40 years, it may have been the first time I ever climbed a barbed wire fence.

Founded in the 1820's as a factory town, Lowell in 1993, streets lined with last decade's Chryslers and Cadillacs, residents in plastic - rimmed eyeglasses and 80's music on every P.A. system in town, looks like a throwback to the 1980's — either ahead of or behind the times, depending on how you look at it.

Elizabeth Banks, Boyd Holbrook and Jacob Lofland star as the three broken people whom writer - director Sara Colangelo uses to explore small - town life in a factory town where the economic divide can be felt in every interaction.

Skilfully filmed but fairly dull, this drama paints a remarkable portrait of life in China's factory towns in the 1980s.

For 150 years, public schooling has been a one - factory town: a board - and superintendent - led district manages, staffs, and oversees an area's entire portfolio of public schools.

Over the years, through a series of high - profile exhibitions and a booming performance program, the museum, led by director Joseph C. Thompson, has brought life to a run - down, former factory town.

His crystal - clear images of roadside attractions, storefronts and factory towns, and the faces of cotton farmers, coal miners and war veterans, defined a new up - close and personal style of documentary photography.

Banality masquerades as sensationalism in the San Fernando Valley, a factory town for the entertainment industry.

Comprising approximately 60 prints from the MoMA collection that were included in the 1938 book or exhibition, the installation maintains the bipartite organization of the originals: the first section portrays American society through images of its individuals and social contexts, while the second consists of photographs of American cultural artifacts — the architecture of Main streets, factory towns, rural churches, and wooden houses.

«The zoo is a lake,» my Duluth contact is reporting to me as he drives by the site, trying to reach the nearby historical Morgan Park neighborhood, famous as the factory town erected for workers at the U.S. Steel plant.