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	Golden Gate Bridge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening into the San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean.
		It connects the city of San Francisco on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula and a portion of the south-facing Marin County headlands near the small bayside town of Sausalito, and is located at 37°49′ N 122°29′ W.
		Later, in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the Golden Gate Bridge is destroyed during the Dominion War in an attack by the Breen on San Francisco.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Golden_Gate_Bridge (1762 words)

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		Golden Gate has made a substantial commitment to clinical programs (our environmental clinical program, for example, was recently rated third best in the country in one publication).
		Golden Gate also hosted the California Environmental Negotiations Competition the last two years, a competition that combines environmental law and alternative dispute resolution in a novel and constructive way.
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	Encyclopedia: Golden Gate Bridge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and the Golden Gate The San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary in which water draining approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean.
		Download high resolution version (546x645, 90 KB)Morning fog spilling over Golden Gate Bridge File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version.
		In 2005, documentarian Eric Steel revealed that he had tricked the Golden Gate Bridge committee into allowing him to film the bridge for months and had captured nearly 20 suicides on tape.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Golden-Gate-Bridge (3960 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Golden Gate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The rest of the novel leads less to the traditional comic ending--rapprochement and marriage all around--than to surprising sadness.
		While the idea of a novel in verse may be initially off-putting, readers of this tour de force are in for a treat.
		golden gate surveys the beauty of san fransisco, and these educated ordinary people with maturity on their sides and poetry in their hearts.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0679734570 (1634 words)

	USATODAY.com - Golden Gate Bridge may charge walkers $1 toll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Paul Sakuma, AP man rides his bike in front of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco on Tuesday.
		"Many people have compared the Golden Gate Bridge to a national park and really believe that this is one of the great free things that are left in the world," said Debbie Hubsmith, executive director of the Marin County Bicycle Coalition.
		The staff recommendations are scheduled to be discussed by the Golden Gate Bridge District's Finance-Auditing Committee this week, followed by public hearings and a final vote by the board in late June.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2002/05/21/gate.htm (389 words)

	attributes to himself, to the real Vikram Seth, is remarkably like the voice of the narrator in The Golden Gate as well ...
		In The Golden Gate death comes by accident, or in the nature of things (and, in both novels, the precious loss is a mother); consequentiality is subdued.
		But the novel is constantly hijacked by Maan's passion for Saceda Bai, the renowned Muslim singer and courtesan; here is a love which is unacceptable to the point of scandal, but an attempt by the author to study passion.
		This is a Condition of India novel, in an old and respectable tradition, which Seth reinterprets with the confidence of a writer who claims to be taken seriously as a craftsman appropriating both the multi-plotted Victorian novel and the wandering epic of the subcontinent.
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	Observer \| Classicwatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		But his marvellous first novel, a singular part of the fiction extravaganza of the 1980s, was far more innovative and original.
		Set in the affluence and sunshine of Silicon Valley in the years immediately before the dot.com boom, The Golden Gate manages to be at once romantic, pleasantly sentimental and yet deeply satirical about the spaced-out hedonism of California's beautiful yuppies.
		When it was published, The Golden Gate was singled out as a remarkable tour de force and praised for its light comic touch, its parodic elegance and its speedy way with narrative.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4343752-100569,00.html (191 words)

	Vikram Seth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The novel, like Pushkin's work, is constructed with sonnets set end to end.
		In the Spring of 1992 at Georgetown, a class adopted "The Golden Gate" for a stage production and performed it.
		Apparently there was a stage adaptation of the novel around Christmastime 1994 in San Francisco.
	www.iit.edu /~jainank/reading/db/seth/gate.html (196 words)

	Vikram Seth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		His first novel, The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse (1986), describes the experiences of a group of friends living in California.
		The Golden Gate is a satirical romance set in San Francisco and is centred on the relationship of two professionals.
		The novel centres on four families: the Kapoors, Mehras and Chatterjis (Hindus) and the Khans (Muslim).
	www.contemporarywriters.com /authors/profile?p=auth89 (1257 words)

	Behind the Fiction with Brenda Weeaks
		The Golden Gate by Vikram Seth is 690 sonnets about California yuppies created read as fiction.
		Lola by Tim McLaurin is a literary novel in verse.
		Dead Reckoning by Haxton Brooks is a novel in verse about a Vietnam veteran, drug addiction, and a staff cover up when the lead character escapes the hospital.
	www.myshelf.com /behindthefiction/01/novelsinverse.htm (1400 words)

	Meena Alexander
		The Golden Gate, which is a novel composed entirely of rhyming tentrameter sonnets--690 of them to be precise--is a satirical romance describing the stories of young professionals in San Francisco throughout their quests and questions to find, then deal with, love in their own lives as well as each others'.
		This novel is set in the political hotbed that characterized India during the post-independence, post-partition decade of the 1950s.
		In the novel, conflict occurs between Hindus and Muslims in the fictional city of Brahmpur, where the story is primarily set.
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Seth.html (1479 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Yuppies in Rhyme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		To have written the "perfect book for the 1980's" may sound like a dubious achievement, but in the case of Vikram Seth's first novel, The Golden Gate, a publisher's blurb may for once approach accuracy.
		...At times The Golden Gate almost seems patterned after an episode of All in the Family, with John, a younger, educated, sophisticated Archie Bunker being tutored in simple truths by representatives of various human groups in possession of the warmer and more natural impulses of life...
		...Critics of all stripes have responded to The Golden Gate with respect, affection, and even gratitude for what the poet John Hollander has called "a charmingly unique sort of minor masterpiece, a tour de force of the transcendence of the mere tour de force...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V82I3P56-1.htm (1878 words)

	American Experience \| Golden Gate Bridge \| People & Events \| PBS
		In the era of the Golden Gate Bridge's construction, workmen knew a grim rule of thumb: on average, one worker would be killed for every million dollars spent on a high-steel construction project.
		But the most innovative safety feature at the Golden Gate site was yet to come.
		Some workers were positively giddy about the innovation, so much so that they had to be threatened with dismissal so they wouldn't dive into the net for thrills.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/goldengate/peopleevents/e_safety.html (546 words)

	Encyclopedia: The Golden Gate (novel) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Golden Gate (ISBN 0394549740) is Vikram Seth's first novel.
		Published in 1986, it was inspired by Charles Johnston's translation of the Pushkin's 1833 Russian classic, Eugene Onegin.
		The Golden Gate is a novel in verse composed of 690 Onegin stanzas (sonnets written in iambic tetrameter, with the rhyme scheme following the unusual ababccddeffegg pattern of Eugene Onegin).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/The-Golden-Gate-%28novel%29 (146 words)

	[minstrels] Why, Asks a Friend, Attempt Tetrameter? (Golden Gate 5.4) -- Vikram Seth
		Seth's 'The Golden Gate'- labelled "The Great Californian Novel" by Gore Vidal, was inspired by Pushkin's Eugene Onegin, and like Pushkin's work, is constructed with sonnets set end to end.
		I still recall how, years ago, when I'd first got hold of The Golden Gate, I'd put in an all-nighter as I read what was my first exposure to modern verse.
		Alternating between spartan and rich, wicked and funny, this racy novel made me realize how beautifully verse can lend itself to describing even the most mundane and monotonous travails of everyday life in the most delightful fashion.
	www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1453.html (492 words)

	With a little help from . . - The Golden Gate by Vickram Seth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Vickram Seth’s The Golden Gate is the complex story of a group of friends living in San Francisco.
		This is a novel in verse and Seth’s brilliant use of the form, and the fast pace of the narrative, pulls you into the story, making it difficult to put down.
		The Golden Gate was hailed by Gore Vidal as ‘the great Californian novel’.
	www.clarelibrary.ie /eolas/library/services/book-promos/friends/seth.htm (84 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Golden Gate (FF Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Set in the 1980s, in the affluence and sunshine of California's silicon valley, it is the story of twenty-somethings looking for love, pleasure and the meaning of life.
		The Golden Gate ends with a few broken hearts, and is indeed vaguely depressing towards its finale.
		A novel written in sonnets; Well it worked for Pushkin and it most definitely works for Vikram Seth.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0571200389 (849 words)

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		This is a novel approach to characterizing metallic welds in real time, showing nice time-lapsed images of the welding process.
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	Seth, Vikram -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Indian poet, novelist, and travel writer known for his verse novel The Golden Gate (1986) and his epic novel A Suitable Boy (1993).
		The son of a judge and a businessman, Seth was raised in London and India.
		As the title might suggest, the novel concerned a girl seeking a husband--a middle-class girl of 19, living in northern India in 1950.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9099522 (772 words)

	A Ward of the Golden Gate Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		A Ward of the Golden Gate Free eBook/Novel
		A ludicrous resemblance to the scene in the Golden Gate Hotel passed through his mind; he involuntarily turned his eyes to seek Yerba in the half-fear, half-expectation of meeting her mischievous smile.
		Their glances met; to his surprise hers was smileless, and instantly withdrawn, but not until he had been thrilled by an unconscious prepossession in its luminous depths that he scarcely dared to dwell upon.
	www.richread.com /00wotgg10.html (19776 words)

	Wave and Stone, Verse and Prose by Kathleen Rooney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Golden Gate—the story of the loves and losses of a group of hip young Californians, and one of the most highly acclaimed books of 1986—this puzzling, inviting, and maddeningly hard-to-characterize hybrid form has enjoyed a startling surge of interest in recent years.
		The Golden Gate, and it remains his only novel-in-verse, thereby illustrating what appears to be a common impulse: to write one as an experiment of sorts, and then to move on.
		Yet truly hybrid works that meet neither the definition of the novel, nor the definition of verse, nor my definition of the novel-in-verse do; they make it possible to express fresh ideas in refreshing ways, thereby opening doors on new means of literary expression.
	www.cprw.com /Rooney/novelsinverse.htm (5946 words)

	Golden Gate Mysteries: Introduction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		¹ Published in 1853, it is one of the earliest—if not the first—crime novels set in the San Francisco Bay Area.
		The San Francisco Committee of Vigilance, the activities of the Sydney ducks and famed bandit Joaquin Murietta, exotic and mysterious Chinatown, the wide open lawlessness of the Gold Rush, and the havoc wreaked by the 1906 earthquake and fire provided frequent backgrounds for early Bay Area crime fiction—and, indeed, they continue to do so.
		Several dime novels of the late 19th century, with their tales of intrepid heroes, dastardly villains, and beautiful damsels in distress, combined crime and a “Frisco” setting.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /~rbrandt/sfmystery/intro.html (509 words)

	Artist's gaze turns to iconic Golden Gate
		Richard Misrach takes on this problem -- if it is a problem -- almost inadvertently, and achieves much else, besides, in the "Golden Gate" series that makes up most of his show, "Berkeley Work," at the UC Berkeley Art Museum.
		After moving to a house high in the East Bay hills in 1997, Misrach became fascinated with the view of the Golden Gate from his front porch.
		He has tried to re-enliven this banal fact by training his camera on things that signify the historical moment, such as the ecological ruin of desert bomb sites, or that widen the temporal frame all the way, such as the empty skies.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/08/24/DD100263.DTL (638 words)

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		An elegant and evocative novel, the prose is resplendent in its portrayal of Indian nobility, quiet in its depiction of their loves.
		Seth previously made a splash with his 1986 novel in verse, The Golden Gate.
		Here he abandons the compression of poetry to produce an enormous novel that will enthrall most readers; those who are fazed by a marathon read, however, may gasp for mercy.
	www.doononline.com /pages/community/shopping.htm (523 words)

	Novel Except
		The streetcar was just passing the stop at Golden Gate Park, and some badly dressed men who looked as though they were about to hit the passengers up for spare change boarded.
		She had gone back to work on her masters in English Literature while I made good living as a technical writer and worked on my novels and poetry in the evening--whenever I managed to get around to it.
		I thought about trying to work on my novel, but who could work on what was rapidly becoming an artistic travesty.
	www.thomasjamesmartin.com /novelexcerpt.htm (6829 words)

	MELUS: Projected bodies in David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly and Golden Gate - Critical Essay
		Moy's characterization of characters from M. Butterfly and Philip Kan Gotanda's Yankee Dawg You Die as "disfigured" (55) assumes a certain homophobic tinge, insofar as Song Liling and Vincent Chang, the Japanese man masquerading as a Chinese actor in Yankee Dawg, are gay.
		The immediate difference between Gallimard falling in love with a transvestite and Sarrasine's attraction to the castrato La Zambinella is obviated by the realization that in both cases anatomy hardly matters: Gallimard and Sarrasine love what they fantasize.
		"Golden Gate." Rev. of Golden Gate, by David Henry Hwang.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2278/is_1_27/ai_89929579/pg_6 (1043 words)

	Powell's Books - Golden Gate by Vikram Seth
		Using the sonnet form throughout, and varying his language from lyrical elegance to timely vernacular, Seth's tale of four California Yuppies is as fully dimensional as a good novel, and twice as diverting....Seth's experiment is a resounding success."
		This novel in verse about a group of California yuppies was one of the most highly praised books of 1986 and a bestseller on both coasts.
		Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse (Volume 2)
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0679734570-9 (203 words)

	Golden Mountain Chronicles
		Now he must prove his worth by giving up everything he has worked for and traveling to the land of the Golden Mountain, the place the foreign demons call America.
		It is February 1967, and Otter has come from China to San Francisco, California-the Land of the Golden Mountain-to join his father and his uncle.
		Moon Shadow was only eight years old when he sailed from China to join his father, Windrider, in America.
	www.harperchildrens.com /hch/fiction/series/goldenmountain (392 words)

	Artist's gaze turns to iconic Golden Gate
		Just to see the Golden Gate Bridge in many of these pictures, we have to draw very close.
		Misrach's earlier, horizonless pictures of blank sky may come closer to inventing the photographic equivalent of scale, but the "Golden Gate" images set their viewers in motion.
		The "Golden Gate" pictures telescope temporal particulars in novel ways.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/08/24/DD100263.DTL (638 words)

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