I mean it's really bad, but what major metropolis is truly satisfied with their transportation authority?
A less overmighty metropolis may be no bad thing.
By contrast, Ms. Monáe left no stone unturned in the opening set, which drew from her willfully eccentric new debut album, "Metropolis: The Chase Suite" (Bad Boy/Atlantic).
In her corner of the park, the crowd was engrossed in the dark twists of "Metropolis," hissing at the bad guy, gasping at scenes that first surprised 75 years ago.
I soared among the skyscrapers of Metropolis with Superman, fought bad guys in Gotham City with Batman, swung between the water towers of Manhattan with Spider-Man.
More so, wood is mostly brought into the metropolis from villages with bad roads that are hardly motorable during the rainy season; this causes a price hike due to scarcity resulting from shortage in supply, forcing the household to go for alternative fuels that are available and more efficient.
Houston, a sprawling suburban metropolis (as big as New Jersey), is uniquely prone to flooding due to its countless waterways and bayous (good for boating and fishing, bad for hurricanes).
A canny teen-age combination of naif and faux naif arrives in the metropolis, declares himself a visionary, bad-mouths everyone, and produces perverse images that attract a fanatical following among the stylish.
How bad is it down there, in the sub-metropolis, the faecal wasteland, Bazalgette's netherworld?
The contemporary metropolis is much more similar to the Bad Government part of the triptych than to the more often quoted small and well-ordered town.
