Word: blanking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unique difficulty--while at times interchangeable, the characters must create enough tension to sustain interest. The actors handle this problem well: Both bearded and flashing sparkling eyes, they at once mesh with and foil each other. Kelner's quizzical manner provides the needed contrast to Torres' air of blank amusement...
...spikers, looking to blank the hosts again, were faced with a more inspired Springfield team than they had seen earlier. "They had a very vocal crowd," explained senior Captain Brad Martin, who added that the game marked the "first time they really came out to beat...
...Blank Wall is on its way to becoming the dominant feature of many United States downtowns," complains William H. Whyte, one of America's most astute observers of the urban scene. Without windows or adornment to relieve their monotony, the walls are built of concrete, brick, granite, metal veneer, opaque glass and mirrors. They cover up department stores and shopping malls, offices and civic buildings, convention centers and hotels. Designed out of fear-fear of the untidy hustle and bustle of city streets and "undesirables"-the walls spread fear. By eliminating the hospitable jumble of shop fronts, restaurant entrances...
...turned and bankers and developers are again investing in downtown, the shiny new megastructures of the '70s and '80s are often still as destructive of its "remarkable intricacy and liveliness" as the bulldozers of the '50s and '60s. Whyte first noticed the proliferation of blank walls when, some years ago, he studied how people use city streets, plazas and other open spaces. With the help of movie cameras, he demonstrated that people move, window-shop, meet, chat, rest on benches, stairs and planter boxes and watch other people in ways that are often entirely different from...
...Whyte has assembled his own photographs of blank walls into a small but impressive exhibition at New York City's Urban Center. New York, appropriately, is one of two major cities (San Francisco is the other) to ban blank walls, in effect, through zoning that requires retailing at street level in commercial buildings. As Whyte's photos make clear, the worst offenders are convention centers, like the one in the Seattle Sheraton Hotel, and the new megastructure office, hotel and shopping centers, such as the Bonaventure Hotel and Atlantic Richfield Plaza in Los Angeles, the Embarcadero Center...