This was one of the golden temples of western art, for heaven's sake, in the heart of the English metropolis, and the restaurant would have disgraced the works canteen in a Uttoxeter cardboard factory.
Zadie Smith's terrain is the English metropolis - concentrated in an area of north-west London from Marble Arch to Cricklewood - where she tunes in to a Babel of voices, registering the changes wrought in the language and landscape by the unfolding epic of post-war migration.
Self-evidently, though, these are not the only English metropolises.
His photography-on-high unveils the city's intricacies, revealing the English capitol to be an ever-changing metropolis steeped in history.
She relished the English country-side, and wrote affectionately of the "aged metropolis", London, where anyone could become anonymous - for a moment, at least.
You will get a much better return on investment with a series of informational placards than a heroic sculpture of an English imperialist keeping his lonely watch over a multicultural metropolis.
3. Thriving little metropolises... (metropoli?).
This 2009 film examined the cult of Dr Feelgood, suggesting they were quintessentially English bluesmen from the Thames Delta, mounting raids on the metropolis from their Canvey Island redoubt.
METROPOLIS Directed by Rintaro; written (in Japanese, with English subtitles) by Katsuhiro Otomo, based on the comic book by Osamu Tezuka; character design/chief key-animation supervisor, Yasuhiro Nakura; music by Toshiyuki Honda; art director, Shuichi Hirata; produced by Metropolis Committee; released by TriStar Pictures.
Together with drawings, theatrical designs and other ephemera, they illuminate this English dandy's astonishingly productive and long-lasting engagement with the booming cultural metropolis that was Manhattan at midcentury.
These are the works of Mr. Katchor, 48, whose work runs locally in the English-language edition of The Forward, and the architecture and design magazine Metropolis, and which have been collected into several books ("Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer"; "The Jew of New York").
