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In the early years of film New York City was characterized as urbane and sophisticated. By the city’s crisis period in the 1970s, however, films like Midnight Cowboy, The French Connection, Marathon Man, and Death Wish showed New York as full of chaos and violence. With the city’s renaissance in the 1980s and 1990s came new portrayals on television; Friends, Seinfeld, and Sex and the City showed life in the city to be glamorous and interesting. Nonetheless a disproportionate number of crime dramas, such as Law & Order, continue to make criminality in the city their subject, even as New York has become the safest large city in the United States in the last two decades.
Unit7
Task1
1. Apologies are in order (appropriate under the circumstances) when Mr. Smith is mistaken for Mr. Jones.
2. Human nature is the basis of character, temperament and disposition (a particular type of character which makes someone likely to behave or react in a certain way). 3. It is only the surface that is capable of alteration, improvement and refinement (improving something; making something better than it was before). 4. Man’s majesty and nobility are taken for granted, although his faults and weaknesses are constantly paraded (to show something publicly) before our eyes. 5. But the murderer, robber or wife beater is singled (to separate or choose from a group, especially for special treatment or notice) out for publicity, because such conduct is unusual.
6. Every man unfolds a distinct (separate, clearly different in quality, belonging to a different and particular type) character over which circumstances and education have only the most limited control.
7. He was made to advance; the po