Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Attractive as many of them are, the parks are generally located a long way from anywhere, take at least a day to "do," and can cost a prince's purse for tickets, meals and a room at the inn. The Krofft brothers' answer: bring the theme park downtown and put a roof on it. Their World, built for $14 million (v. $300 million for Disney World), occupies eight stories inside Atlanta's new $70 million Omni International "mega-structure." It takes only three to four hours to savor, costs $4.25 per kid ($5.75 for adults) and, thanks...
...flew to Tokyo. Each student lived with a Japanese family to fulfill the school's philosophy of viewing the culture from the inside (watching from within the rice paper porch the gardener snip pine needles in the bonsai grove). Bateson and Jaeger also held daily orientation classes at their downtown hotel...
...main streets. The city is still dominated by the immense, pale brick palace long occupied by Selassie, where the blinds are drawn as if he were only sleeping. Even the Emperor's horses are kept just as they were when he was alive, in their parade stables downtown...
...while indulging in the urban world to work and go to concerts. The professor adds that this vast majority of people are not beset with the metropolitan problems that have dominated our public dialogue for years. More moderate sized cities, like Minneapolis, can actually solve their garbage, traffic and downtown commercial problems. This leads people like former Mayor Hubert Humphrey to believe that they can work wonders from the White House...
...cherry pie" time-circus lingo for an emergency. The trucks carrying the big tent had broken down, and by the time they rolled into downtown Burbank, only five hours remained before show time. Members of all 22 acts ran to help out: clowns, barkers, aerialists, animal trainers, tightrope walkers, acrobats, and Colonel Wallace Ross and his elephants ("ninety-thousand pounds of pachyderms"). Local kids were joining in, lured by the promise of free tickets...