Word: malling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more people go around calling Harvard Square a mall, the more of a self-fulfilling prophecy it will be," Sudholz says. "People will stop coming here if they hear all it is is a mall. The people who [would] suffer the most from this are the small businesses...
...mall begins with a conspicuous statue of Alexander Hamilton, and it ends when Mass. Avenue and the Massachusetts Turnpike conspire to beat the open green space into cemented thoroughfares...
Shortly before the Mass Pike and Mass. Ave intersect Commonwealth Avenue, though, Boylston Street divides the pedestrian mall in two, and, unmistakably, the statue of former Harvard Professor of History Samuel Eliot Morison '09 looms from the divide and the lush green behind...
...think one of the two volumes to his left has to be Spring Tides. Why else would you place a venerable, old professor's memorial statue in the middle of the Commonwealth Avenue Pedestrian Mall, in a neighborhood in which he never lived, looking like he just spent a day at sea, and not depict one of his best works?" says Mary Ann Rothstein of Newton...
...still a city of ghosts. When I am in the center of the city, I'm haunted by images of a dead soldier, his body burned by an angry mob and strung up from a footbridge. Am I the only one? At that spot now is a gleaming shopping mall. When I visit my old neighborhood, I think back to the terrifying scene three days after the massacre when a convoy of troops opened fire on foreigners' apartments. For months after Tiananmen, you could feel the indentations the tanks left in the asphalt of Changan Avenue. I still sense them...