New Yorkers in Bayside, Queens, have had to do it themselves, using shovels and another tool foreign to apartment-dwellers in Manhattan: electric or gas-powered snow blowers.
But his presence was everywhere: in the locked gates to a beach and campground; on the local news, where the authorities have been warning people to stay away from the woods; and in the recent emptiness of the park, which on typical fall weekends attracts crowds of city dwellers and foreign tourists admiring the turning leaves.
Bacon's solitary death at 82 in Madrid seems a desolate, slightly random, parting for a London dweller whose foreign playgrounds, over the years, included Berlin, Paris and Tangier.
Since there were no passport offices in the enclaves, enclave dwellers who wanted a passport had to cross foreign territory illegally to reach their parent state through one of very few official check posts.
Brazil is experiencing a full-fledged rodeo boom, and while city dwellers may view the phenomenon as a bizarre foreign import and an unlikely rival to soccer, the view from the vast interior is very different.
The main reason we were talking to each other as never before was because we were occupying public space and using public transport in a way that city dwellers do the world over, but that is utterly foreign to South Africa due to apartheid planning and the fear of crime.
Meanwhile, foreign culture, as was the case in the 1920s, greatly influenced young urban dwellers, who in the postwar period broke with their own traditions and turned increasingly to Hollywood and American popular culture for alternatives.
When the Communists came to power in 1978, they aggressively pushed an education campaign that aroused the wrath not only of country dwellers, but of the mujahedeen, who saw state education as an anti-Islamic, foreign import.
The booming cities of skyscrapers and glittering shopping malls that so impress foreign visitors to China will, over time, start to look more like cities in other developing countries as country dwellers move in.
Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Paul and Jane Bowles--hotel Bowles--hotel Bowles--hotel
