Word: malling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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VENUE: Washington Mall, White House jogging track...
Many women are dispensing with the cumbersome chador and are wearing simple head scarves. At the Red Shopping Mall in northern Tehran, teenage girls sport cut-down Islamic dresses called mini-manteaus, with flashes of color from bandanas under their scarves. Says an Iranian student: "Women are trying to make a statement. They're trying to say, 'We are still here.' " Bright new buses ply the capital's busy main streets, while shops and showrooms spill over with expensive consumer goods...
...went numb. The eventual diagnosis was multiple sclerosis. By 1982 she could no longer ride the scooter; by 1984 she could not walk unaided. To help her out, Kresge gave her a shopping cart, which Les filled with bricks for ballast; pushing it, she could still get to the mall each morning...
Anyone who has visited the Vietnam Memorial on the Mall in Washington knows the feeling of being overwhelmed, defeated, by its mass of names. There are just too many to bear...
...imagine a hundred Vietnam Memorials arrayed on the Mall. The earth would sink beneath the weight of such sorrow. Yet it would take that many Vietnam Memorials to list the names of those killed in the Holocaust. And it would still not be enough. There would still be nearly 200,000 left uncommemorated, more than have died of AIDS in America in all the years of the plague...