Word: malled
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...that case, the loudest applause given by the crowd gathered at the Mall might not have been in response to a call for tax cuts, a policy hailed that morning in The New York Times by William F. Buckley Jr. as the most morally pressing matter Bush can attend to at the outset of his presidency. "He must avoid the endless argument about whom to benefit, whom to deprive," Buckley said, and instead end "the moral problem in the government's withdrawing from the taxpayers' pockets more than is required...
...mall security camera captured a shaky image of two 10-year-old boys leading a much smaller boy out of a Liverpool, England, shopping center. The boys lured James Bulger, 2, away from his mother, who was shopping, and led him on a long walk across town. The excursion ended at a railroad track. There, inexplicably, the older boys tortured the toddler, kicking him, smearing paint on his face and pummeling him to death with bricks before leaving him on the track to be dismembered by a train. The boys, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson, then went off to watch...
...called sex, lies, and videotape. The $1.2 million romantic Rubik's cube resonated with a public largely fed up with the mindless action-heavy fare of 1980s Hollywood, and by independent-film standards it became a blockbuster. It also cleared a path from the art house to the mall and launched a brigade of indie and indie-minded movies--from Pulp Fiction to American Beauty--into the mainstream...
...Denver didn't officially celebrate on Dec. 31, 1999, because of Y2K fears, but will throw caution to the wind this year and stage a massive mall party. Mayor Wellington Webb has belatedly discovered the city was a stickler all along: it celebrated the start of the 20th century...
Still doing holiday shopping but want an alternative to stepping into mall madness and tackling commercial clutter? Consider a trip to Manhattan's downtown. New York's East Village has a history of anarchy, counterculture and edginess. In keeping with the neighborhood tradition of rebellion, a group of nine entrepreneurs recently formed the Designers of the East Village Association or, simply, DEVA...