Word: malle
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...culture, the source of news and the place where people congregated. Today, almost no one lives on a farm, life in the suburbs is the common American experience, and the excitement of a trip to town has been replaced by that of a visit to the local shopping mall...
...recent years the mall has evolved from a mere shopping area to a center of culture catering to every possible need--from movie theaters and grocery stores to clothing and pet emporiums to dental and legal clinics. Gradually it has become the fashion for mobile suburban youths to hang out in the malls, perhaps much the same way their fathers lounged around the old corner drug store. And the biggest attraction of each modern mecca is the mall arcade, where a kid can lose himself for hours in the sense-numbing, noisy darkness, as long as his quarters hold...
...vidiot syndrome, endemic to the atmosphere of a mall, reinforces the idea that here is the place to be. Rather than do anything constructive, or even active, the teenagers who gather at the mall-known as "mall rats"--seem to be choosing early a life of passivity and vapidity in an artificial environment...
...first generation of "mall rats" has grown up now, but some of them seem at times reluctant to leave the familiar comfort of the mall to enter adult society. For instance, the Washington Post recently ran a story that centered on one of the denizens of the bazaar in particular, one Douglas Funk...
...contracts to both Vista and Magnum, sometimes over the objections of the city council. Magnum is a black enterprise, and Vista posed as one in order to be eligible for preferential treatment by the city. Other less serious investigations involve the funding of several housing projects and a mall development and operations of the city...