Word: centralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although best known for his central role on the O.J. Simpson defense team, famed attorney Johnnie Cochran barely touched on "the trial of the century" in his address yesterday at the Institute of Politics' (IOP) ARCO Forum...
...even Victor Hugo can't beat Lucy Parsons. Stocking everything from Marx to Zinn to the crazy communist next door's most recent manifesto, the Lucy Parsons Center, a revolutionary bookstore in the heart of Central Square, defines unorthodoxy. Although the Square does have its own admirable revolutionary bookstore, conveniently called Revolution Books, it cannot compete with this Central counterpart...
...home. Like the evil East Village landlord who tries to evict Roger and Mimi in "Rent," Holmes Realty Trust wants to put the beloved bookstore on the street in order to build an expensive housing and office complex that will do nothing to benefit the people of Central Square. But Lucy Parsons, its volunteers (there is only one paid employee) and its fans have mobilized. Rallies! Protests! Antagonism! Strife! Ah, la boheme! Puccini would be proud...
Salts is located on a rather deserted stretch of Main Street just beyond Central Square. It opened this September in space left vacant by Anago Bistro's move downtown to the Lenox Hotel. If not for the periodic rumble of the T massaging the feet of restaurant patrons, one could easily forget the cement jungle outside of the door. The interior is romantic and tasteful; even the walls are appetising, liberally dosed with colorful still-lifes of ripened fruit. A giant convex mirror reflects all of the patrons in distorted miniature, spotlit from above by track-lighting...
...fact that the University would not have someone in the central administration to negotiate with us precipitated this negotiation," Williams said...