Word: downtowners
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...begin his book. An angry wife grumbles about "my husband, the cop. Always has to be the big man." When neighbors ask him to fix tickets, she says, he tells them, "No problem." She goes on: "The big, important policeman. Do you know how he fixes tickets? He goes downtown and he pays them, that's how he fixes tickets." This is a tough, grubby book, and a good job of listening. --By John Skow
...killing only spawned more violence. Hundreds of militant students raged through downtown streets, smashing windows and throwing Molotov cocktails. More than 1,000 protesters barricaded themselves in Athens Polytechnic University. After two days and nights of disturbances, peace returned, at a cost of one dead, more than 100 injured, and a political casualty, Government Spokesman Costas Laliotis, a left-winger who resigned in dismay at the handling of the crisis. NORTHERN IRELAND Extremists Unleash Their Fury...
Nonetheless, when Architect Frank Gehry was commissioned to design a campus for the Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, he had little direct formal precedent. Who knew how a downtown Roman Catholic campus in California was supposed to look? The small site is in a raggedy neighborhood; the budget was not great ($4.8 million); students and faculty yearned for a physical sense of community. Gehry's solution is a small miracle. Using his customary sorts of raw materials--galvanized steel, plywood and stucco--he has virtually invented a new form of late-20th century urban classicism, simultaneously gritty and dignified...
...capital of exuberant quirkiness, San Francisco municipal authorities agreed on a set of laws meant to codify the city's piquant urban character. The Downtown Plan, a radical and ambitious zoning scheme, will protect dozens of fine older buildings from demolition, severely restrict the amount and bulk of new highrise construction and virtually outlaw the modernist office block...
...cancer surgery, as an English major at the University of Pennsylvania, Steve sat at his father's bed, tallying more than $200,000 in the elder Wynn's outstanding debt. Steve made his first major foray into Vegas in 1972, buying an interest in the Golden Nugget, a seedy downtown casino. He overhauled the place, then built a new Golden Nugget in Atlantic City, New Jersey, (with financing from junk bonds floated by Michael Milken). His next big move put an indelible stamp on the Strip: Wynn opened the Mirage, a shimmering temple of camp, with white tigers behind glass...