Word: mall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearly 200 students rallied at the University of Maryland's central mall to protest the feature and demand that the magazine's photographers be banned from campus...
...memorial in Washington will be different. It will be installed on the edge of the Mall, not far from the Washington Monument. It will be utterly European. It will reek of a European suffering and evil...
...grass has grown over the world's memory of their murder. Why? The numbers of the dead would surely qualify that entry (one thinks mordantly) for some genocidal hall of fame. Perhaps that is the sort of museum we need on the edge of the Mall: a home for all the great blood scandals: the Armenians slaughtered by the Turks, the Hutus slain by the Tutsis in Burundi, the Cambodians who have died in Pol Pot's haunting imitation of Stalin's barbarisms...
...home during a remission, Eric seals a special bond with his father. Each evening they visit a nearly empty mall because Eric must be isolated against infection. There they window-shop and occasionally play Space Invaders. Pringle gives Eric's medicine a personality. Vincristine, a derivative of the periwinkle plant that is responsible for Eric's baldness, is dubbed "Sheriff Pete Periwinkle," aiming to outdraw the bad blood cells. But the sheriff loses, and the pain returns with a shock: "This five-year-old is no longer protected, and he knows...
...proceed in a fluorescent seasonlessness. Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68° all year. Air conditioning is one of the serious accomplishments of the 20th century. It produced the Sunbelt. The enclosed suburban shopping mall prefigures those cities of the future that will be entirely domed, like a pheasant under glass. No seasonal variations need be endured...