1.   That part of the country is a cultural wasteland.

2.   Hong Kong, it is widely believed, and it is routinely said, is a cultural wasteland.

3.   The foundation brought performers like Isaac Stern, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the New York City Ballet to southern Florida, then considered by some a cultural wasteland.

4.   What he found in L.A. was a virtual cultural wasteland, say gallery owners Robert Berman and Tom Patchett.

5.   Who says L.A. is a cultural wasteland?

6.   All this in a movie town with a rap as a cultural wasteland.

7.   As a youngster, David Swenson heard his state described as a cultural wasteland, one that exported its young folks as well as its wheat.

8.   She described them as ignorant bigots living in a cultural wasteland who described black people as smelly and were unconvinced that black brains were as big as white ones.