Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scenario for the opening scene of Rambo: First Blood Part III. The pure fighting machine, as he is known, is in Buffalo on a special mission. But he gets lost downtown and strides into the City Court Building for directions. Bare- chested, with a sweaty bandanna around his head and what looks like an AK-47 rifle in hand, Rambo strikes terror in all who see him. A police alert goes out. Dozens of officers search the courthouse corridors. One policeman, Gerald Baetzhold, draws his revolver, trips and shoots himself in the foot. Our hero, unaware of the chaos...
...many years ago, downtown St. Louis was, like most old American downtowns, a void, dreary and disheartening, a place where respectable people worked, bums lived and almost nobody strolled. Given that lifelessness, the city's attempt to create a heroic modern monument to itself in 1965, Eero Saarinen's arch beside the Mississippi, came to seem like self-mockery: a pure, gorgeous steel span rising from a dying downtown and a forgotten riverfront, a giant logo erected as a wishful substitute for authentic urban reconstruction...
...charmingly urban Faneuil Hall Marketplace in Boston, the charmingly urban South Street Seaport in New York and several lesser-known charmingly urban shopping-and- eating entities. These profitable developments are distinctly funk free, but they are not ugly. If it takes an artificial heart to save a dying downtown, as Harborplace probably saved Baltimore, why complain? The problem is programmed quaintness: Ghirardelli Square was a revelation 20 years ago, a copy or two elsewhere were great, a few more were fine, O.K.; but when every second downtown in the U.S. gets cheerfully Roused, the formula starts to pall. A pleasurable...
...truth about receiving a "battlefield promotion" in the Vietnam War You didn't tell the truth about how your father died. You didn't tell the truth about how long you've been affiliated with the Republican Party. You didn't tell the truth about who owns the downtown office building that houses your company. You didn't tell the truth about how soon after leaving Kidder-Peabody in 1971 you formed your own company. You didn't tell me truth about how long it took for you to go through Boston University...
Luke Hunsberger (guitar with amp) -- He plays at Holyoke Center twice a week-for five hours starting at 7 p.m. and at the Downtown Crossing once a week at lunchtime. He plays 60s and 70s music, Beatles, Neil Young, Bob Dylan. He's a regular in the Square, having performed steadily for the past nine months. (see story this page...