Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SATURDAY NIGHT in the Orpheum theater in downtown Boston, and a garishly dressed is assembled, swaying slowly back and forth to an old Montown number, which no one can remember. The house lights are dimmed, and five silhouetted figures make their way to their instruments. A nasal, almost adolescent voice comes out of nowhere...
Last year a giant downtown Schlitz sign was replaced by one bearing the Budweiser label of St. Louis' Anheuser-Busch. That is a little like erecting a flashy Toyota sign atop the Fisher Building in Detroit. After all, Schlitz was "the beer that made Milwaukee famous...
...first spring of their revolution three years ago had Iranians seemed so self-confident. "It is time for you to count on the great power of the Iranian nation in this region," Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Moussavi proclaimed to the crowds that thronged to Imam Hossein Square in downtown Tehran to commemorate the founding of the Islamic Republic. Moussavi's exuberance was understandable: for the first time since Iraqi Strongman Saddam Hussein launched his invasion of Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province 18 months ago, Iran could boast that it had gained the upper hand on the battlefield...
...fact, when the fair ends next fall, residents will be left with more than just a municipal debt of perhaps $300,000 a year. They will inherit a six-acre park with a lake and a handsome 2,500-seat theater. The once downcast downtown will be anchored by new and renovated buildings, expanding the tax base and generating new jobs...
...city, housed only foreign students. The cafeteria on the ground floor operated according to the schedule posted on its doors, except when it didn't. Breakfasts had to be rushed or skipped altogether because, although the cafeteria opened early enough to allow us 25 minutes before leaving for classes downtown, much of this time was wasted waiting in line, first for the food and then for the cashier to add up the bill on an abacus (she used the cash register only as a cash box). The breakfast offerings included greasy fried eggs, cold beets, herring with onions, porridge, sausage...