Word: mall
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dress code in Los Angeles is assuredly not strict. So the other customers at the shopping mall on Santa Monica Boulevard that evening scarcely noticed the newcomer in a tuxedo who had joined them in line at the flower stalls. Neither the young lady in the decal-covered bomber jacket nor the young gentleman with the sheepskin vest over his T shirt and the pith helmet saw any reason to fuss over someone evidently doin' his thing in a tuxedo costume. No, what turned their heads was the new arrival's inquiry...
...economy is already sparking along. Area joblessness is 4.6%, a 20-year low; major employer Boeing is operating at an all-time high percentage of capacity; and hundreds of thousands of new residents have moved in during the past few years. Downtown, a state convention center, a shopping mall and underground bus tunnels are under construction. The area has been so torn up that some residents refer to it as "little Beirut...
Poor Wall Street. In a slide that began with the stock-market crash 18 months ago, the get-rich-quick go-go years have faded into memory. No longer do brokerages open branches in every mall or freely lavish six-figure salaries on young talent. Gone are many of the yachts and the black-tie dinners -- along with more than 8% of the 260,000 employees who worked in the U.S. securities industry before the collapse. And despite the cost cutting, a fresh wave of gloom rolled through investment houses last week. Even as the Dow Jones industrial average surged...
Culture has not remained the exclusive domain of Moscow intellectuals. On the Arbat pedestrian mall, would-be Pushkins and Pasternaks peddle their autographed poetry for a ruble or more a page. Sunday painters in Izmailovo Park display their labored tributes to the Russian futurists, suprematists and constructivists of the early 20th century. More than 200 experimental studio theaters have sprouted in Moscow alone. The cultural explosion has been felt as far away as the Pacific port of Nakhodka, where local artists set up a puppet theater workshop, and in Yaroslavl in the Soviet heartland, scene of a rollicking street festival...
...versions of the truth could still be found. Pushing my way past a mob of women lined up on the Tambov pedestrian mall to buy yellow tights, I had stepped into a bookshop. On display were paperbacks from a series called Imperialism: Acts, Facts and Records...