Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What is to be done? Refusing to eat Whoppers or to skip that headache-filled stroll through Downtown Crossing simply translates into moral purism. Such acts might also lead the quasi-veggie to join a commune tucked away in a Vermont forest or isolated on a northern California sea-cliff. But a seclusion without frozen Swanson's brownies or the pulpy grease of Quarter Pounders also loses out on the potentially progressive parts of an often despicable society...
Just last Thursday, for example, a riot broke out in downtown Cape Town. A group of Black women gathered to sing songs of protest against the presence of security police in Black townships. It was the lunch hour and many people, white and Black, gathered around. The police moved in first with water cannons and then with dogs, whips and rubber truncheons. At first they attacked only Blacks; later they went after anyone standing in a group, Black or white. Police knocked over and beat cameramen on the scene. Blacks fought back. Some turned cars on their sides to make...
...Johannesburg, which had so far been spared serious racial violence, news of the hanging was greeted with outrage. After a noontime memorial service for Moloise, hundreds of blacks poured into the streets of the city's white downtown area and went on a four-hour rampage. Two policemen were stabbed and about a dozen white pedestrians were robbed or beaten, some of them severely. At least ten shops were looted. Police made six arrests and shot one suspect...
...newspaper of a pluralistic city, the Times has become the voice of real-estate developers and big business, the voice of Manhattan south of 96th street. Sure, it covers the other boroughs and the rest of the world. But its coverage unfolds distinctly from the perspective of the downtown interests. A recent feature on Hurricane Gloria's damage to Fire Island spoke of the "several hundred nervous city people who had come to inspect the vacation homes they feared they might never see again." The accompanying photo showed the damage to Calvin Klein's vacation home...
...Chicago, you cannot let expensive downtown property sit with a fence around it for three years," she said. "You're not getting money from the dirt, but the costs continue...