Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...YORK STORIES. In this trio of vignettes, Francis Coppola belly flops with his tale of rich kids. Two out of three ain't bad: Martin Scorsese's sketch of a downtown painter and Woody Allen's comedy about the ultimate Jewish mother...
...Andres Perez warned Venezuelans that hard times were ahead for their heavily indebted, oil-exporting country. Even he had no idea how hard -- or how soon. Last week the citizens of one of Latin America's most stable democracies were in shock after a social explosion that tore apart downtown Caracas, the capital, and shattered the peace in at least 16 other cities. Government-imposed austerity measures had ignited a three-day free-for-all of rioting, looting and killing that left an estimated 300 people dead, 2,000 injured and another 2,000 in jail...
...violence persisted into early yesterday in downtown Caracas, where sirens wailed as authorities put out fires and battled looters in streets filled with shattered glass...
...popular uprising. There are riots everywhere. They are all furious," said Metropolitan Police Inspector Jose Lara Montilla, who commanded a police unit armed with shotguns in downtown Caracas...
Sound farfetched? Perhaps. But normally unflappable Bostonians consider this apocalyptic vision a real possibility, and it has the city in an uproar. In two years construction is scheduled to begin on the $4.4 billion Central Artery project, the rebuilding of a highway that runs through the heart of downtown Boston. To relocate much of the highway underground, workers will have to excavate 13 million sq. yds. of earth, tearing up countless sewers and other subterranean tunnels. The problem: they are home to untold thousands of the city's rats, one of the largest such colonies in the country. Rudely evicted...