Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Atkins, has an immensely strong political base in his hometown of more than 80,000 residents. As a former city councilman and Lowell's representative to the Massachusetts House, Shea is credited by Lowellians with bringing in millions of government dollars to fix up the city's flagging downtown over the last 10 years. That shot in the arm from the state and federal governments has in turn attracted business back to the city. Wang Labs has opened up a plant in Lowell, and the huge Courier Printing Co., which produces, among other things, every single telephone book distributed...
...Soweto riots. Two days later another explosion hit an electrical substation 65 miles to the northwest of the city. At almost the same time, police discovered a powerful limpet mine, made of plastic explosives, that had been placed in the building that houses the Rand Supreme Court in downtown Johannesburg. Bomb-disposal experts carried the device to the lawn outside the building, where it was detonated, blowing out plate-glass windows and buckling leaded glass in one courtroom...
Warehoused might be a more appropriate term. In an old factory in downtown Los Angeles that has been remodeled to give the effect of a vast, raw artist's studio, some 30 antique and modern cars are displayed like icons. Around the Pierce Arrows, Packards and Mercedes-Benzes are nearly 200 paintings, graphics, sculptures and photographs dedicated to what Historian Lewis Mumford called our "mechanical mistress." The exhibit amounts to a striking critique of industrial society as well as the vehicles it has produced...
...talked with equal enthusiasm about his Bible college and about "opportunity" and "space to spare" in Dallas. Dallas did not seem as thoughtful as Hank, but it appeared to live somewhere between the church and the bank. Saturday afternoon I walked among the gray and silver office buildings downtown, each showing off another in the tall sheets of reflecting glass, like dark vertical lakes. Buildings going up and up. One, as yet unfinished, had windows only part of the way up the structure, like a woman pulling on a stocking. Sex was somewhere in this mix. The air was filled...
...scholar surrounded by his books, like a scholar who had known action somewhere; a Harry Truman or John Wooden. "Free spirit, high energy, risk taking, the strength of one's convictions-that's what Dallas is all about," said Clements. "All these marvelous buildings." He gestured toward downtown. "These buildings only exist because of entrepreneurs...