Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...platform includes decentralizing City government, placing more power in the hands of district area boards and reorganizing the City Council, and balancing the distribution of city resources between the neighborhoods and the downtown area. "So far the resources have all gone to developing the Boston skyline," he said, adding. "The city is only as good as its poorest neighborhood, only as good as its ability to have people healthy...
...lighthearted, however, were the pamphlets and broadsides delivered by the local Irish Republican Committee encouraging anti-British protesters to confront the Queen. At the Davies Symphony Hall's morning entertainment (which included, à la campy Carmen Miranda, two women with hats bearing huge models of downtown London and San Francisco), an Ulster émigré named Seamus Gibney screamed, "Stop the torture!" He was hauled out, Mary Martin calmly finished singing Getting to Know You, and the Queen's press secretary said he thought Gibney had only coughed...
...arrival that the government felt it could only benefit from a successful visit. State-controlled television provided full and uncensored coverage of John Paul's stay in Costa Rica. Workers were given an extended weekend to give them time to see the Pope. Even the Sandinista workers' headquarters in downtown Managua was draped with a red-and-black banner welcoming John Paul with "revolutionary...
...Salvatore Scordo, a former union employee in the same union as Scricciolo. The seven alleged conspirators reportedly concluded that a shooting attempt was too risky, and decided instead to explode a bomb in Walesa's hotel room or in a nearby parked car. The resulting blast in downtown Rome, Judge Imposimato concluded, would have caused "a massacre." The alleged murder plot was never carried out, for reasons that are still unclear...
...slow and regular as a long-distance runner's. The acting is uneven, from Russo's Method overacting to Lunch's delicious coarseness as she tries to remember her lines. None of this matters much. What does is the look of the film: a downtown gallery of elegant, provocative images. Warning shadows pin actors against the wall. Bedrooms and boardrooms alike are illuminated by lasers, neon, smoke, creepy red and blue filters. Single-source lighting throws every face and motivation into sinister relief. And under the action, jazz-rock music - a hum of bass, synthesizer and baritone...