Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FROM THE TOP FLOOR of the Parker House one evening last month, Boston looked placid. Seen from that angle, the just budding green of the Common was painted brightly against the John Hancock lower. If you'd looked out over downtown that night, you might well have thought yourself in a windy city of brotherly love...
...fire is a five-alarmer, one of the most spectacular in San Francisco since World War II. Two giant wooden piers on the city's downtown waterfront are burning out of control, hurling giant orange flames against a nighttime Pacific sky. As scores of fire fighters scramble to uncoil hose lines and position aerial platforms, a slight figure tightly wrapped in a flame-resistant fire fighter's coat steps carefully through the debris in open-toed shoes. Above the roar of high-pressure pumps, she quizzes battalion commanders and cranes her neck to assess the fire fighters...
Feinstein's critics charge that her ties with Big Business, and particularly real estate developers, are unsettlingly close. Under her administration, claim the critics, rampant high-rise construction has destroyed the character of the city's downtown, darkening its streets and driving out small business. Says Bruce Brugmann, publisher of the Bay Guardian, a local newsweekly: "With Feinstein it's been allegro furioso all the way. She's helping wreck the city she was born in." The mayor counters that her 1983 plan for downtown proposes "the most restrictive zoning of any high-rise business center...
...public eye first blinked at him in 1978 when he opened his raincoat in front of a statue in downtown Portland, Ore. A resulting poster, Expose Yourself to Art, sold more than 250,000 copies worldwide and made Bar Owner J.E. ("Bud") Clark, 52, something of a local celebrity. When the bearded, self-proclaimed agnostic announced he was running for mayor this year, everyone was again amused. He campaigned diligently, however, and Incumbent Frank Ivancie worriedly began calling him "a born-again pagan." The vitriol backfired, and Clark astonished the disbelievers by stomping Ivancie and three other candidates with...
Leonard's world splashes across a crowded Dickensian canvas where social strata collide, and the gravedigger waits by the charnel house. In this underworld, usually located in downtown Detroit or Miami's coke country, thugs and pushers are unappealing, malignant-and instantly recognizable. All one needs to know of Hit Man Eddie Moke in Stick, for instance, is that he changed his image from heavy metal to urban cowboy but still looked "like he mainlined cement." Paco Boza, a Cuban street junkie of LaBrava, tools around South Miami Beach in a stolen Eastern Airlines wheelchair "because he didn...