Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boom years of the 1960s, every American city resounded to the din of construction. No project seemed too ambitious; builders confidently razed vast downtown areas, and their architects just as confidently designed huge structures to fill the voids. The trouble was that instead of creating new life and vigor downtown, the projects were all too often sterile and uninviting-reason enough, though there were others as well, for businesses and middle-class city dwellers to opt for the suburbs. In 1966 Edward J. Logue, then the highly respected chief of Boston's redevelopment program, succinctly defined the times...
Somehow, that is one message that got through. As Americans visit their own major cities in this Bicentennial season, they are being surprised, delighted, heartened and even awed by what they see. There is hardly a downtown that is not offering a glittering new face, a startling new profile. In Atlanta, a round 723-ft. tower soars like a silver silo above the Georgia heartland. In Los Angeles, the flat megalopolis that was supposed to spread ever outward, new towers sprout like asparagus. Windswept Oklahoma City, a dramatic vertical statement in the horizontal world of the Western plains, strikes...
...expensive--ticket prices are only slightly lower than downtown--but the quality of its productions is reputedly high. George Hamlin, producing director of the Loeb, recruits the company from all across the country, inviting noted New York and Boston area actors and other younger performers chosen through a series of national auditions to participate...
...alive, while Middle East Airlines, the country's flag carrier, flew in and out of a sandbagged airport that frequently took mortar fire, until it finally closed. Food prices soared, but cart vendors always seemed to have fresh produce for sale. Merchants who had lost their shops in downtown fighting transformed the once flashy Corniche into an open-air souk, closed only on days when the artillery thumped dangerously close. With no censor about, a few movie theaters even were daring enough to show European soft porn−afternoon diversion for weary militiamen back from the front line downtown...
...Blue Line is the baby of the system, a spur from downtown out to the Revere area, with only 12 stops of its own. The line has a suburban feel to it, because of its new stations with their shiny benches and photographic murals. For most college students, it serves as a link to the airport, ferrying people into the Green and Orange Lines...