With the advent of the machine age, and the influx of workers into cities to work in factories, people gradually lost control over their own destinies.

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Unlike the lush, elaborate, French-inspired, high Deco romanticism of the Chrysler Building, the Empire State's massing and design is a more simplified, commercial evocation of the Machine Age, a favorite theme of the time.

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For those of a certain age, Pretty Hate Machine will always evoke a particular form of teen-transgressive ressentiment.

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