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So how about a review for those of us living in a cultural wasteland.

Worst decision I ever made in my entire life was moving into this area of cultural wasteland.

In 20 years we've gone from a cultural wasteland to an interesting, stimulating, great place to live.

I have been for years on a planet that must be the cultural wasteland of the universe.

New York City, he said, is for him a bit of a cultural wasteland.

At last, hope for an oasis in the 500-channel cultural wasteland of the airways.

He often compared his early life there to a cultural wasteland in which he did not fit well.

Then I moved back to that true cultural wasteland called North Jersey.

"It's a cultural wasteland, a six-hour drive to a museum," she said.

We aren't really a cultural wasteland; it just appears that way when you look at our movie marquees.

With its relatively short history and concrete skyline, you might expect the Iranian capital to be something of a cultural wasteland.

"If we want economic growth here, we have to fight the perception that this is a cultural wasteland.

This has led a lot of people to look at this region as a barren cultural wasteland."

For some unknown reason, those who don't live on Long Island believe it's a vast cultural wasteland.

Advertising itself, he said, "is a cultural wasteland."

To the urban avant-garde, the fledgling suburbs seemed to be a political backwater and cultural wasteland.

I spent last weekend in the vast cultural wasteland that is known as Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Many of the wives of officers considered California to be a cultural wasteland and a hardship assignment.

I'm afraid that tinkering with great plays in the public domain is yet one more example of the cultural wasteland in which we live.

Nottingham always has amazing things like this going on within the city, but it never stops feeling like a complete cultural wasteland.

"Studio 60" is a polemic about television as a cultural wasteland at the very moment the industry is entering a new golden age.

Nor is Las Vegas the cultural wasteland outsiders imagine it to be.

I'm not very intellectual and I don't actually mind the idea of Australia as a 'cultural wasteland'.

Is this Long Island, the place so often vilified as a pop cultural wasteland of big hair and exaggerated accents?

"We are not a cultural wasteland, but people don't think of us, because we are so close to New York."