Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always received unquestioned priority. No longer. Now those who head for the special "line on the left" are often pelted with insults-or worse. "Who told you to get pregnant now?" snapped a middle-aged woman last week as a young mother-to-be entered a butcher shop in downtown Warsaw. "Here comes the little cripple," muttered another shopper as a handicapped woman hobbled toward the counter. "She'll probably skip home when she gets around the corner...
...visited my home town of Baltimore a couple of months ago and was amazed at the rejuvenation of the downtown area and the pride among Baltimoreans. I thought the plane must have dropped me off at the wrong city...
...whenever they can to a tree farm they bought not long ago in Dutchess County, and when she is in Manhattan tries to stay out of midtown, where every tourist comes equipped with a celebrity detector. She and Gummer are moving from his loft in Tribeca, an area in downtown Manhattan favored by artists, to a larger but equally unpretentious place just to the north, in Little Italy. Streep is now and forever a New Yorker, without a trace of a tan or of West Coast show-biz gloss. She bounces into a magazine photo session, wearing a dime-store...
...dressmakers' workroom is a small L-shaped area on the fourth floor of a dilapidated building in downtown Los Angeles. Tattered sheets drape the dirt-streaked windows. Seven seamstresses, ages 18 to 45 and all from Latin America, sit in a tight row, huddled over their humming machines, monitored by a stocky Hispanic woman with a shock of bright orange-red hair. On a nearby desk rests a broken time clock. The workers were not paid last week; they may not be paid this week. The boss will pay them when she has the money. Mañana. Perhaps...
They have to be, since B & B accommodations present special inconveniences: they may be in residential neighborhoods far from downtown theaters and museums, and parking can be a problem on crowded streets. Many B & B guest rooms do not have private baths, nor are there usually telephones or televisions. There may be the early-morning clatter of pans from the kitchen, or the creak of old floorboards overhead. On the whole, B & Bs are not designed for families; there are often limitations on the number of guests per room, and fragile antiques and bric-a-brac do not coexist with...