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American Prospect, The, December, 2001 by Goldhagen, Sarah Williams
NOW THAT THE WORLD Trade Center towers are gone, will Tony Soprano still glance at them in his rearview mirror as he drives home on the New Jersey Turnpike? Or will The Sopranos' producers have him looking back at the now denuded skyline of Manhattan--at the squat residential towers of Battery Park City, all dressed up in frills and pink veneer?
Not likely. The twin towers were that rare entity in the American architectural fabric: a good, perhaps even a great, work of architecture. Everyone knows that few of the other towers on the southwestern tip of Manhattan are any match ...
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