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Article: Albuquerque;New Mexico's Shimmering City In the Sun
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 1, 1987
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In Albuquerque, the sense of place is as clear as the air. The
minute you step into the airport, you know where you are: The floors
are tiled, the ceilings beamed, the colors warm. The wood benches
have a Spanish cut to them, the sunburst "Zia" symbol of New Mexico
is everywhere, and the art on the walls is evocative of the Indian
tribes, like the Navajo, who occupied the place long before anyone
visualized airplanes or airports.
If you have any residual confusion about your locale, you need
only step to a window and behold the hard-edged sunshine, the
shimmering desert and the abrupt mass of the 10,000-foot Sandia
Mountains. It's Albuquerque, and there's definitely a "there" there.
The ...
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