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  Naked City   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Naked City, which had two incarnations between 1958 and 1963, was one of American television's most innovative police shows, and one of its most important and influential drama series.
Naked City was, in essence, a compassionate--not a savage--eye.
Naked City was one of ABC's most prestigious shows during the early sixties, nominated for "Outstanding Achievement in Drama" Emmy every season it was on the air, and winning several Emmies for editing and cinematography.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/N/htmlN/nakedcity/nakedcity.htm   (1438 words)

  
 Naked City: The Complete Studio Recordings: Pitchfork Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Yet compared to his other major working band, Masada, Naked City has remarkably little sway over Zorn's work now, and this box set-- which collects all seven of the group's albums, released between 1989 to 1993-- forms a puzzling legacy.
But Naked City the band differs from Naked City as a conceptual project, and over their next few albums Zorn pulled them into every possible direction.
Naked City will always be Zorn's "coolest" project, the best vehicle for his early ideas, and one of the most intriguing ensembles its members ever joined.
www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/n/naked-city/complete-studio-recordings.shtml   (949 words)

  
 Naked City Index
This was the band that endeared Zorn to the hearts of hardcore punks everywhere, and got him in trouble with Committee Against Asian Violence for some album art they considered demeaning to Asians.
A brutal mishmash of styles being played by five of NYC's best musicians (and occasionally one very angry Japanese "vocalist") Naked City was one of John Zorn's most ambitious projects.
Naked City was one of Zorn's best projects, and "Torture Garden" and "Grand Guignol" are two of my favorite Zorn pieces.
members.tripod.com /~JFGraves/Naked_City/nakedcity.html   (251 words)

  
 John Zorn's Naked City   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Naked City marks out the group's territory: jump-cutting micro-collages of hardcore, Country, sleazy jazz, covers of John Barry and Ornette Coleman, brief abstract tussles — a whole city crammed into two or three minute bursts.
The Naked City project (which, compared to the completely improvised ones, is based on composition) was to see how many kinds of music can be made with the same ensemble, to write very different things for the same group.
This album is essentially a live version of their debut album — 17 of the 20 songs come from Naked City, sometimes in the same sequence.
www.omnology.com /zorn03.html   (2825 words)

  
 Pitchfork: We Are The World: Fucking Hardcore Rules!: John Zorn's Naked City Live, Vol. I   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Naked City played several pieces that jumped from one idea to the next, sometimes at dizzying speeds: "Latin Quarter," with the melange of styles replicating a walk past clubs in New Orleans, or the abrupt jumps from country to hardcore on "New York Flattop Box."
But when Naked City came out, he was still developing his ideas: he was aggressively good, and hostile in his innovation.
Naked City played not by the rules of an art band, but of a rock band-- where good ideas don't matter if you don't have the balls and raw talent to get them across.
www.pitchforkmedia.com /watw/02-05/zorn.shtml   (1546 words)

  
 TrouserPress.com :: Naked City
On Naked City (which is actually credited to Zorn as a solo artist), the band sets the tone for things to come by jimmying no less than 25 brief bursts of deceptively well-ordered noise onto a disc adorned with a gruesome post-execution photograph.
On Radio, Naked City revisits the darkened movie theaters that provided spiritual succor for the band's initial recordings, with a particular spotlight on keyboardist Wayne Horvitz, whose elusive, chattering runs often got short shrift on earlier Naked City releases.
Zorn disbanded Naked City in 1993, choosing to concentrate his energies on Masada, the linchpin project of his Radical Jewish Culture collective.
www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=naked_city   (413 words)

  
 The Naked City - Online Store - Batamweb.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
New York City is the scene, and a young woman has been murdered in the bathtub, creating sensational headlines for every newspaper and scandal sheet in the city.
In addition, filming on location in cities was relatively new in 1948; as a result, the sound is horrific, with many scenes being heavily looped by the actors.
Jules Dassin's meritorious 1948 flick "The Naked City" was beautifully and ambitiously filmed in the streets of New York by respected cinematographer William Daniels.
batamweb.net /english/Amazon/asin=6305226172.html   (1394 words)

  
 "Naked City" - Jazz Bulletin Board
There's a Naked City box that includes all seven of the studio recordings, and is nicely put together with a 100 page book.
Naked City is one of the bands that John Zorn put together in the late 80's/early 90's.
the only naked city album i've heard from beginning to end is "torture garden", which is annoying as hell.
forums.allaboutjazz.com /showthread.php?t=11151   (574 words)

  
 the apartment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
perched atop the city, christ the redeemer looks down upon this 'cidade maravilhosa' as if blessing the inhabitants below.
culture abounds in every nook and cranny of this jewel of a city, and nowhere is it more alive and more dramatic than in the arts of the theatre, or better yet, the teatro.
for the romantic at heart, there's aprazivel on the rua aprazivel in santa tereza, perched on top of a hill, the city opens up below you as you feast on their very simple but very delicious fresh roasted palm hearts.
www.theapt.com /travel/naked_city.html   (2050 words)

  
 Salon News | Naked city?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
There, New York City corrections officers strip-searched Morales infront of jeering prisoners, threatened him with rape if he didn't disrobefaster, tossed his shoes down a crowded cellblock corridor and forced himto retrieve them naked.
The city does not deny that unconstitutional strip-searches occurred.But Lorna Goodman, one of the city's top staff lawyers and a spokeswoman forthe Corporation Counsel, said the practice was an administrative mistake that didn't hurt most prisoners.
While the distinction may prove important in a court of law, the court of public opinion is sure to be less forgiving.
www.salon.com /news/feature/1999/06/01/stripsearch   (807 words)

  
 sfbg.com | A and E
A few officers admitted that a complaint about, say, naked sunbathers on the roof of an apartment building was unlikely to be followed up on unless traumatized children were somehow involved.
In public arenas like city parks or the beach, you may be asked to cover your private parts if someone brings the law down on you, and a ticketing and/or arrest will likely follow if you should choose to decline in favor of free speech and whatnot.
And until the day when your naked tuchus is entirely free and legal and everybody knows it, the most prudent course of all would be to keep a spare pair of pants handy.
www.sfbg.com /38/34/cover_naked_city.html   (2283 words)

  
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You'd glance at the naked people and think, "Well, the Boston crew is back, and you'd return to your drink.
But I had never before attended a Messenger Championships The main reason for this oversight is that I am not a bicycle messenger, and don't ever plan to become one.
To be a bike courier, said one racer, is to be able to ride city streets through rain, snow and mud it’s not about having the hottest stuff and strutting it around.
www.cybergeo.com /courier/NAKEDCITYSF.HTM   (1764 words)

  
 Pravda.RU Naked Men Get Excited Over Dressed Salesgirls in the South of France
There is a naked city over there, where it is a common rule for everyone to walk around absolutely naked.
The shops of the naked city are very convenient: shoppers do not have to look for a fitting room to try a new dress or underwear on.
There is a naked city over there, where it is a common rule for everyone to walk around absolutely naked More details...
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 Amazon.com: Naked City: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Instead the (mostly) ordinary folk of the city are shown getting on with their lives and deaths.
Although it does not have every photo from 'Naked City', the 250 included are printed as duotones on glossy paper, I particularly like this book because it shows many photos as original un-cropped prints.
A fine selection of Weegee's unposed, spontaneous vignettes of life in the city, at least, as it was in the 30's and 40's, equivalent of today's TV "fuzz and the wuzz".
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0306812045?v=glance   (955 words)

  
 Naked City
The script was originally called Homicide, but was renamed The Naked City, a title purchased from the still photographer WeeGee, notorious for his unadorned, sometimes ghastly flashes of New York after dark.
The murder investigation used the vast complexity of the city to convey the daunting nature of the police detectives' task.
As claustrophobic as The Naked City is large and open, Dassin benefited from an intense and riveting star performance by Burt Lancaster.
www.moviediva.com /MD_root/reviewpages/MDNakedCity.htm   (1133 words)

  
 City Pages - Cynical, Bitter, Jaded as Hell. Also Naked.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Sure, the façade is similar: "Naked girls!" screams the Suicide Girls header, while a prominent message extols visitors to break out their credit card to check out the good stuff hidden from guests.
There are tits aplenty for the less conversational-minded, though chances are those tits belong to a girl as handy with a vintage 8mm film camera as she is with a webcam.
No part of this service may be reproduced in any form without the express written permission of City Pages, Inc. except that an individual may download and/or forward articles via e-mail to a reasonable number of recipients for personal, non-commercial purposes.
www.citypages.com /databank/23/1147/article10895.asp   (2457 words)

  
 Social Design Notes: Silicon in the Naked City
The flyer announced a series of events around the city to collect, refurbish, and recycle old electronics in an environmentally responsible manner.
Electronic devices constitute less than one percent of the NYC waste stream, but the materials are extremely toxic if not disposed of properly.
Events like this have been run in the City before and the average tonnage of computers and electronics received per event is approximately 10 tons.
www.backspace.com /notes/2004/10/03/x.html   (968 words)

  
 Browse by Artist: NAKED CITY
This first volume is a beautifully recorded document of the band early on, performing live at the club that served as home base from their very first concert series in 1988 to their very last in 1993.
Captured here performing the repertory of their legendary first recording many months before they entered the studio, this is Naked City at its gritty/fast changing best.
Most people know this music from the single domestic release on Nonesuch, but the major portion of their studio recordings were issued from 1989-1993 on the hard-to-find Japanese labels Avant and Toy's Factory.
www.forcedexposure.com /artists/naked.city.html   (430 words)

  
 E.J.N> - JOHN ZORN
John Zorn was born in New York city in 1953.
He is founding member and saxophonist of the group "Naked City" and composed all of the works the ensemble performed.
Naked City (Frisell -g- Fred Frith -b- Joey Baron -b-) became his vehicle for skipping between slcaze jazz, surf rock and hardcore: they made an impressive debut for Elektra/Nonesuch in 1990.
www.ejn.it /mus/zorn.htm   (783 words)

  
 .: route magazine :. .: Naked City (Route 15) :.
At the heart of the modern city we find stories of lovers, stories of people with a desire to connect to someone else, something else.
Perhaps there are eight million stories in the naked city.
Included are a series of naked city portraits as seen through the lens of photographer Kevin Reynolds and a selection of the very best in new short fiction in a bonus section, This Could Be Anywhere.
www.routemagazine.co.uk /routev7/page.asp?idno=53   (410 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Naked City (1948) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
And the 1948 THE NAKED CITY was among the first to turn the tide.
In an era when most films were shot on Hollywood backlots, THE NAKED CITY was actually filmed in New York--and while filmmakers could film with hidden cameras sound technology of the day posed a problem.
"The Naked City" is a film noir drama presented with a semi-documentary style, and the result is a film that's as much about the city of New York, and police procedure as it is about the crime under investigation.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6305226172?v=glance   (2904 words)

  
 Jeff Golub / Avenue Blue - "Naked City"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Jeff and his band, Avenue Blue are back with their second Bluemoon recording, naked city, revisiting the soul, funk and blues stylings that peppered his acclaimed debut.
For naked city, Jeff and co-producer Rick Braun went into the studio with a full rhythm section and more.
His follow-up is called Naked City, and the grooves are as economic as the previous record, but this time Golub steps up the funk a little more.
www.jeffgolub.com /cd_naked_city.htm   (395 words)

  
 Brittany Murphy, Carla Gugino, Jessica Alba naked SIN CITY nudity levels, SIN CITY violence levels, SIN CITY movie ...
Sin City is a hard R. Like kissing a female with chapped lips, razor burn and a five o'clock shadow -- this movie wants to leave you with scars.
But Sin City is a fl and white metropolis, as envisioned by Frank Miller -- a world the film's director, Robert Rodriguez didn't want to mess up.
When asked why he'd sacrifice everything for a woman he spent just one night with, Marv answers, "she was nice to me." Marv works the streets and slowly pieces together the puzzle, and all signs lead to Goldie's death being ordered by Senator Roark's brother, Cardinal Roark (Rutger Hauer).
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 The John Zorn Web Site, Biography and Discography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Although Naked City can play delicate, subtle music when Zorn wants them to, they specialize in brief, aggressive, abstract songs.
I had a few Naked City CDs, so I had been exposed to the jump-cut technique — from one musical style to another, sometimes a dozen times in a single song.
The Naked City songs are the best part of the album, although they are over in less than two minutes.
www.omnology.com /zorn01.html   (5010 words)

  
 Naked City, The
And like that program, the movie's not afraid to get up close and offer quiet, desperate moments as when a mother is faced with the prospect of identifying her daughter's corpse at the city morgue.
To its credit, The Naked City gave rise to a television show of the same name, and it's had an obvious influence on a score of police dramas, from Starsky and Hutch to Hill Street Blues and the aforementioned Law and Order (which owes some, if not all, of its existence to this film).
The closing line, "There's eight million stories in the naked city, and this has been one of them," simultaneously demonstrates the conflicting, dual nature of the city.
www.movie-vault.com /reviews/tfrzPYUMbwmZtfpn   (583 words)

  
 Cleveland Magazine | Editorial | New Articles | Our Naked City Best, Surf Cleveland, Suburbs, Dry Cleaners, Ohio Ice ...
One guy gets naked right away, despite the artist's request that we all disrobe collectively and only when instructed to.
We are to disrobe and walk over there, disperse evenly and face the same direction for the first shot, then, for the second, lie on our sides with our heads facing west.
In an instant, I was struck by how stunning she was, that she was entirely naked and that she knew absolutely everything I was thinking.
www.clevelandmagazine.com /ME2/dirmod.asp?sid=586CA122EB394032BD4AA3B686FF03D9&nm=Editorial&type=Publishing&mod=Publications::Article&mid=1578600D80804596A222593669321019&tier=4&id=93EBE5FF5F95404CB99CAFC1F3B0D487   (1707 words)

  
 Naked City   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The German title is Gnadelose Stadt," which translates as "merciless city." It's a downright shame that reruns of Naked City are so hard to come by and that almost no contemporary television programming even begins to approach the literary and visual quality of this old anthology series.
Filmed on location in New York City, literate scripts by brilliant writers, and the finest actors in America as guest stars.
Not all the eight million stories of the naked city are about criminals, and they don't all end with someone going to the slammer.
www.jumptheshark.com /n/nakedcity.htm   (985 words)

  
 Montreal Mirror : Divers/Cite 2005 : Naked city
Gazing at German photographer Henning von Berg's Naked city series, one is struck by their sheer simplicity.
As well, he'll be sussing out locations for his Naked Montreal shoot, to take place in 2006.
In front of the lens, it's more difficult to get naked amateurs to relax than it is to get naked professional models relaxed, but the result seems to be much more real and natural.
www.montrealmirror.com /2005/072105/diverscite4.html   (796 words)

  
 Naked City Boys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
As you've probably noticed, I don't post naked pics of myself on here, and while there are plenty of me out there floating around the net, if you want some pics of your very own, here's a good way to get me in and out of my shorts.
I know that opposing fur or appearing naked in an ad for PETA is a very hollywood-hip thing, but in supporting one aspect of their organization you are supporting their entire agenda.
There was a 1948 detective movie "Naked City", which was inspired by the 1945 book of the same name by photographer Weegee (Arthur Fellig).
nakedcityboys.blogspot.com   (8423 words)

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