Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country, bringing the plight of the homeless, both old and new, to an early crisis as shelters everywhere brimmed over with people escaping the cold. Some could not escape: in Kansas City two homeless men were found frozen to death, one in a portable toilet at a downtown parking lot, the other in a construction-site trailer...
...this ain't no disco, this ain't no foolin' around. Gordon's Innocent, a collection of ten tracks, has the electrified, hypnotic, postminimalist drive familiar to mainstream audiences from the Talking Heads, but with a rougher, anarchic bite. Indeed, the album is a Who's Who of the downtown crowd: one song, The Day the Devil Comes to Getcha, has words by Laurie Anderson, and supporting musicians include Percussionist David Van Tieghem. Innocent is a walk on the wild Lower East Side, a long way from Lincoln Center...
...even more impressive: $105.6 billion. Toronto's Reichmann brothers, for example, now own 8% of all the office space in Manhattan. Last March a subsidiary of Vancouver-based B.C.E. Development bought $1 billion worth of real estate in five U.S. cities, including 13% of the office space in downtown Minneapolis. Other Canadian investors have purchased gold mines, chains of movie theaters and California wineries...
...PAST year or so, I have been less than complimentary about conditions at the Quad. And I still stand by many of those criticisms. But to assuage many of my friends up North, I would like to point out the merits of living in the suburbs of busy downtown Cambridge. Herewith, a list of good things about the Quad...
...true that Black males commit a disproportionately large number of petty thefts in downtown and inner-city neighborhoods, especially against the often seedy jewelry stores that dot these areas. But what is more important and seldom cited is that the overwhelming majority of Blacks are neither thieves nor robbers nor members of economic groups which depend upon crime...