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Three cars are parked on Elizabeth Avenue in Mexico in front of a furniture store.
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  • Essay, Memoir, & Lyric
    • SECTION 1—Walkers in the City
    • SECTION 2—Intimate Graffiti
    • SECTION 3—Bicycles, Trains, & Automobiles
    • SECTION 4—Textual Burlesque
  • Report & Eyewitness
    • SECTION 5—All the City’s a Stage
    • SECTION 6—Urban Fabric
    • SECTION 7—After Slag
    • SECTION 8—Strangers Here Ourselves
  • RANT & REMEDY
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    • SECTION 10—Mean Streets
    • SECTION 11—Letter From Another City
    • SECTION 12—Continuous City
    • From the Editor’s Desk—Sally Rand’s Fan Dance
  • INTERVIEW & HAPPENING
    • Slag Glass Happenings
    • The Slag Glass Interview
  • Contents of the City
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Washington Square Arch from underneath.

Excavation: In Situ

A train rushes by at JFK Airport in NYC. A building made entirely of class can be seen in the background.

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A long crowd of people walking cover the sidewalk on Fifth Avenue in NYC.

Gertrude Stein and Sima Rabinowitz Walk Down Fifth Avenue Together

Two older ladies talk on a wooden park bench. A large plant is behind them.

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