Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still working in the Libyan petroleum industry--and possibly even some Americans. There were 1,500 in Libya in January, and some may have disobeyed Reagan's order to get out of the country. The Libyan intelligence-service headquarters, from which Gaddafi and aides launch terrorist operations, is in downtown Tripoli and hard to hit without causing heavy casualties among Libyan civilians...
Between demonstrations at the two focal points demonstrators marched through downtown Boston, distributing leaflets, chanting, and encouraging passersby to join them. The group from Harvard marched behind a banner reading "Harvard-Radcliffe Committee on Central America...
...kept to the monastic regime and took the traditional monastic vows of chastity, poverty, and obedience. "We were just something new," says Father James Madden, explaining the appeal of the new order. The order came to Boston in the 1870s, and moved to Cambridge in the 1930s from downtown...
...liveliest fashion scene in the country. Some of the designers' names --including Susan Backus, Keni Valenti and Bayard--may pop up some day soon in more commercial settings. The show as a whole may or may not be a barometer of where street-savvy American fashion is headed, but downtown is the direction to go for spirit, smarts and a little by-the-way hilarity on a hanger...
...tune in to new ideas at clubs as various as the trendy-tony Palladium and the ever elusive Love Club, which moves at regular intervals. "The clubs are where you go to find out what people are wearing," says Stephen Saban, associate editor of Details, which began chronicling the downtown scene four years ago and has fast become the smartest style magazine in the country. "People who design clothing go to clubs because kids who are the fashion innovators go to them. There is lots of getting ideas and exchanging ideas...