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The democratic structures exist in Russia,' she said, 'but as time passes they turn into Potemkin villages. Our public school systems are littered with Potemkin Villages labeled "schools of the future. IT HAS BECOME A COMMONPLACE TO SAY THAT New York is no longer hospitable to artists, that Chelsea is a sort of Potemkin village fronting for a city whose economic realities make it increasingly difficult to keep a practice going, and whose Disneyfied ambiance provides diminishing incentive to try. |
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