Word: galleria
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...establishing walkers' clubs that offer T shirts and buttons, merchant discounts, occasional free breakfasts and, most important, mileage logs for members. Walkers keep as close tabs on their totals as runners do of their times. "I'm on my 600th mile," boasts Ruth Kaufman, 60, a member of the Galleria Mall GoGetters in Glendale, Calif. "I could have gone to San Francisco by now." Observes Pat Garmer of Peoria's Northwoods center: "Let me tell you, you don't get in their...
...interior, however, could be in New York City's Trump Tower, Chicago's Water Tower Place, Houston's Galleria or any of several other vacuously luxuriant shopping centers that seem designed for a latter-day Marie Antoinette. Here the architects became tacky in an orgy of salmon-colored tile and Spanish marble, brass and rosewood, fountains and vegetation and, naturally, a waterfall sculpture. Copley Place's two-level shopping mall is a catalogue of high-priced interior-decorator clich...
...Imitation Hemingway Competition. If you have been to Ernest Hemingway judgment night, then you know how it is. Six judges reading the entries. Spare lean entries. Parodies. The winner was a woman named Lynda Leidiger, 30, with a story about a Valley Girl in a shopping mall. "In the Galleria, it was fine. Sometimes clean and warm and bright. Sometimes clean and warm and cold . .. She had been there as long as the concrete, longer than Sears ... 'We will be fierce and fly down the freeway through the rain like two wild birds,' I said. 'But, like...
...chewing gum, beer (Heinies and Lowies), burritos, movies, Harlequin romances, records (anything by Journey, Rush, Van Halen, AC/DC) and movies (alltime fave: Mommie Dearest). Other Total Necessities: a blow dryer, a Walkman and at least one gold chain. PAVs are obsessed with fashion, crowding mondo cool stores from the Galleria in Sherman Oaks, Calif., to the Galleria in White Plains, N. Y. (Minis and ruffles, short pants and denim jackets with the collar turned up and cuffs rolled back are in.) Top status possessions are a horse, a health-club membership and a monthly clothing allowance. A rilly killer bedroom...
...willing to call it a draw. "Dallas was bigger first," says Houston Department Store Owner Robert Sakowitz. "Then Houston caught up. Now neither is in the other's shadow." Still, neither town seems able, or willing, to stop one-upping the other. Houston has a 44-acre Galleria complex of stores and offices, but Dallas will shortly have its own Galleria, one acre smaller and built by the same developer. Dallas has a gorgeous new city hall designed by I.M. Pei; Houston has the nearly complete 75-story Texas Commerce Tower, also designed by Pei, which will...