Holding up a dark mirror to the Stirling prize, the Carbuncle Cup singles out the worst offenders of the year, the abominations that blight our skylines and bully our streets, the mean-minded developer tat that clutters cities up and down the country.
It takes just a few quick establishing shots -- a dog picking through trash in a Brooklyn gutter, people slumped on their stoops, watering their sidewalks and cluttering the city pools -- to set the stifling mood for "Dog Day Afternoon".
THE prototypical destination lobby in a city now cluttered with them, Forty Four at the Royalton Hotel — called 44 when it opened in 1988, not long after New Yorkers first flocked to see Gordon Gekko wax fondly of greed — has emerged from yet another renovation that brings it closer to its nightclub roots.
For Mija, a 66-year-old raising her only grandson, Wook (Lee David), in a cramped, cluttered apartment in an unnamed city, the pursuit of poetry becomes a pastime and then a passion and finally a means of transcendence.
Yes, that could eventually create clutter for cities, he acknowledges.
But it is also cluttered with sprawl from the three cities: Pasco, Richland and Kennewick.
But unlike many of those cities, downtown Memphis is not cluttered with the glass office towers that went up in the 80's and 90's.
In battered cities, behind closed doors in living rooms cluttered with statues of the Virgin Mary, many grumble about the bloody crackdown.
To establish the festival as a perennial event, the city must also muscle its way into an already cluttered film festival and market calendar.
In the cities, they clutter up the sidewalks and rip the stucco off houses.
