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You can look far and wide, but you'll never discover a stranger city with such extreme style.
"YOU can look far and wide, but you'll never discover a stranger city with such extreme style," John Waters once noted about his hometown.
Beneath the veneer of its squeaky-clean streets, super-efficient tram systems, rigorous banking principles and holier-than-thou Alpine churches lies a somewhat stranger city that is ready to surprise at every turn.
The lyrics follow the course of Madonna's rise from figuratively being a "hungry sibling" ("I'm gonna leave this place, So I can forget every single hungry face") to being a superstar ("I hit the big time but I still get the blues, Everyone's a stranger, City life can get to you").
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In Istanbul hordes of approachable Turkish men offer to show a stranger the city or take him to a traditional wrestling match.
It's since been viewed on YouTube millions of times and, apparently, is now screened to strangers in city parks.
The notion that conflict between strangers in cities can be legislated away through curfews, closures and lockouts is naive at best and undemocratic at worst – only totalitarian cities can be frictionless and under those cities, far more violent discontent simmers.
Most of the two million displaced people are still living in tent camps and cramped quarters with relatives and even strangers, in cities as far flung as the southern port of Karachi.
It wasn't easy walking up to strangers in cities and states where I had never been, asking them not only to come to a complete stop on the sidewalk but also to sit down and tell me about an experience they would probably like to forget.
Strolling through Istanbul with someone who was a stranger to the city I'd lived in my whole life lent me a different perspective on that life, on the city, and on my memories.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
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