Word: malle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...buildings in Washington, D.C., and broken pipes caused perhaps $200,000 in damage to the Ohio Supreme Court chambers. More than 700 water mains broke in Fort Worth, causing the system to hemorrhage water twice as fast as the city uses it. In New Orleans, upscale new Canal Place Mall was awash because of broken pipes, while city streets were flooded by rain. The Crown Plumbing Co. in Houston hired 150 workers, doubling its staff, to cope with 3,000 emergency calls a day during the four-day freeze...
Shoppers seem to feel a sense of urgency this year, inspired partly by spot shortages of such popular gifts as exercise wear and stuffed toys. Said Michael Brownlow, a railroad conductor from Doraville, Ga., who took a day off last week to shop in a suburban Atlanta mall: "If you wait until the last minute, things will be gone. I had to get up Sunday morning and stand in line for half an hour just to get one of the toys my son wanted." Parents often have to act like detectives to find such other scarce playthings as Return...
...around it slid into decline, just as downtowns practically everywhere did the same. (To its credit, or tenacity, the Press-Scimitar was wheezing "Forward, Memphis!" to its dying day.) Circulation fell from 127,000 in 1973 to "less than 80,000" this year. Downtown itself was turned into a mall to compete with suburban malls-the same kind of desperate and characterless rearrangement happening all over the country-and still suburbanites clung to the perception of a ubiquitous downtown scene as one in which a man with a wallet is being chased by a man with a brick. Landmark buildings...
Stephen Spender, British writer, on visiting a U.S. shopping mall: "It's like a zoo in which the inhabitants happen to be human beings, very excited about their new cage...
Toole's composure collapsed only once, while explaining how he kidnaped and beheaded six-year-old Adam Walsh in Hollywood, Fla., in the summer of 1981. Adam Walsh's disappearance from a shopping mall became a national cause celebre two years ago. It led to the passage last year of the federal Missing Children Act, giving the FBI more authority to investigate disappearances of children, as well as the filming this fall of a made-for-TV movie, Adam. By coincidence, the show aired a week before Toole's prison confession, which he later recanted. But police...