Word: downtowner
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...Angeles spoke of both terror and gratitude. Unlike other disasters of more nameless suffering, each death could be counted and mourned. A 20-year-old man died after the power failure cut off his hospital respirator. Another died in a fall from a sixth-floor window of a downtown hotel. Then again, what if it had come three hours later? What if it had not been a holiday...
Hell with that. Gonna be a Little League in Cabrini. A tough, prickly black community worker named Al Carter gets it started, in tense alliance with an enthusiastic but overly religious white insurance man named Bob Muzikowski. The very white downtown corporations are persuaded to do the right thing, and since team names are to be those of African tribes, by mad and wondrous logic there are the Northwestern Mutual Life Pygmies, the Northern Trust Maasai, the Morgan Stanley & Co. Mau Maus and the First Chicago Near North Kikuyus...
...fault segment should give way at the same time. This is what happened in 1992, when the Landers earthquake hopscotched from one fault to another, in the process gathering enough power to push up a 6- ft.-high ridge of rock. Should the Elysian Park system, which snakes beneath downtown Los Angeles and the Hollywood hills, let loose with similar force, it would make last week's monster seem tame...
...unknown products, from kiwi fruit to Tabasco sauce. The trouble is, prices are so high that the minimum monthly wage of about 15,000 rubles does not even cover the cost of a kilogram of high-quality smoked salami, which sells for more than 16,000 rubles in one downtown Moscow gastronom store...
...remarkable picture of the world in which the Kittredges and their friends live, but they provide a stark contrast to the handful of shots taken in the less ethereal parts of the city. When Paul moves in with two aspiring actors in their flat above a roller disco Downtown, and when he phones Ouisa from the West Village, the love affair between New York and the camera cools. We can truly see the disparity of the worlds in which New York's rich and poor live, and sense the unease which this creates...