Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wild colors, exciting at first, ace dizzying by movie's end. The geography never makes sense--houses on hills with no apparent connection to the downtown bistro-brothel district, or to the beach. A debauched French movie-within a-movie, apparently being Filmed in the middle of the main story, also lacks an identifiable time and place...
...disclosure last week of the brutal torture of a Salvadoran volunteer for the Green Cross, an international relief agency. The worker had been arrested by Salvadoran security police on charges of providing supplies to the guerrillas. Imprisoned for several days in a secret, soundproof room at police headquarters in downtown San Salvador, he was stretched on a rotating wheel, beaten severely and forced to swallow lime. The victim was also strung up by his hands and feet while his genitals were squeezed in a wire vise...
...experts would agree that the United States is not better prepared to fight any kind of war as a result. A draft would still take months to mount while the standing army would do any initial fighting. Soviet tanks, by the way, are still parked on the streets of downtown Kabul...
...problem was posed by the local Community Redevelopment Agency as part of its attempt to restore downtown economic health by bravely attacking Skid Row, a nearby slum of roughly 10,000 to 15,000 people that is a sort of sunlit version of Charles Dickens' London. The $25 million plan called for making the slum more livable with new housing, rehabilitation, social programs and two parks. Skid Row bums, the theory went, could be dissuaded from wandering downtown by being given patches of grass and benches to sleep on, a shelter for keeping dry, toilets, and freedom from harassment...
...remains fiercely controversial. Community leaders say more children will use it once the bums have their proposed second haven. Police complain that the park has done little to draw derelicts away from downtown or reduce crime. Some downtown businessmen maintain that derelicts do not deserve a haven anyway. Says Todd Bennitt, 33, the designer in charge of the project at POD, "The jury is still...