Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SERIES of powerful shots of downtown Kingston, music enables Director Perry Henzell to move quickly from closeup to closeup without disrupting the viewer's overall perspective. Music knifes through the film as the constant reminder of the attraction of the successful hustle. Henzell is able to spotlight key segments of dialogue by removing the mantle of sound, and isolating them in sudden stark silence...
...last Friday, four tanks and about 100 soldiers of Chile's 2nd Armored Corps surrounded the squat, gray Moneda Palace in downtown Santiago. As the troops released a hail of machine-gun, bazooka and rocket fire at the carabineros guarding the palace, pedestrians dove for cover; others scattered and ran wildly. Within minutes, seven people were dead and 22 wounded...
...shooting caused enormous flocks of pigeons to wheel in confusion over the square, which was packed with the cars of commuters who were trapped downtown by the coup attempt. The crew that usually raises the Chilean flag in front of the Moneda in the morning defiantly draped Chile's national flag out a first-floor window of the palace. Somehow that hapless scene seemed to symbolize the country's present state...
...city in 1909 stirred men enough, for example, to create urban parks along Lake Michigan's shoreline and a system of neighborhood forest preserves. A plan in 1958 touched off a coordinated $5 billion building boom in the central business core. That led, in 1966, to another downtown plan-and more high hopes and work. Result: Chicago's Loop is among the healthiest downtowns in the U.S. At a time when corporations are fleeing other cities for the suburbs, big Chicago firms...
...Town. Chicago 21 starts by taking advantage of the huge but little-used railway yards around the downtown Loop area. This prime land is available for new projects with an absolute minimum of demolition, relocation of people or land-assembly problems. Indeed, the air rights over 83 acres of railyards between the Loop and Lake Michigan are already being developed. There, the Illinois Center Corp. is building $1.5 billion worth of offices, apartments and parking garages and hotels. Important as an extension of the business district, the project also upgrades the city with good architecture (buildings by Mies...