明尼阿波利斯市政厅不是一座漂亮的建筑。它是一堆红色花岗岩，是一个阴沉的十九世纪罗马式建筑，蹲在环路闪闪发光的玻璃钢塔之间，就像一颗疣子从钻石项链上伸出来。
(The Minneapolis City Hall is not a pretty building. A pile of red granite, a sullen nineteenth-century Romanesque lump, it squats amid the glittering glass-and-steel towers of the loop like a wart poking through a diamond necklace.)