Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Almost an entire nation become paralyzed with curiosity and concern. Crowds gathered to watch the electronic tickers in brokers' offices or stare at television monitors through plate-glass windows. In downtown Boston, police ordered a Fidelity Investments branch to turn off its ticker because a throng of nervous investors had spilled out onto Congress Street and was blocking traffic. George Finch, 66, a retired businessman in San Francisco, summed up the bewilderment: "I don't know what the hell is going...
...People used to stay on campus to drink," said Knoll. "Now, they go downtown. The bars there serve anyone...
...handful of writers fall in together at a downtown-Manhattan nightclub, do they make a literary noise if there is no journalist around to hear them...
...well as Cannibal. The latter is the story of a well-read tribal chief who becomes the toast of the asphalt jungle and accidentally eats his wife at a barbecue. Janowitz has a catchy style and achieves her satiric effects with a sly Valley Girl delivery. Slaves cartoons the downtown-Manhattan art scene, where Janowitz, like her friend the late Andy Warhol, understands that people will look at anything rather than nothing: artlike artifacts if there is no art, and booklike objects if there is no literature...
...before the unsuccessful Diplomatic Club meeting, a third Kim had launched his campaign against Roh. To a poster-waving crowd of 3,000 supporters at a hotel in downtown Seoul, former Prime Minister Kim Jong Pil, 61, indicated that he too would seek the presidency, as the nominee of a party he would form later this month. A chief architect of the 1961 coup that brought Park Chung Hee to power, Kim Jong Pil is generally credited with forging economic policies that helped make Park's 18-year regime the crucible of a remarkable burst of development. The ex-Prime...