Word: malling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There's something wrong when a $7 movie in the mall can leave you with post- traumatic stress syndrome. In the old days killers merely stalked and slashed and strangled. Today they flay their victims and stash the rotting, skinless corpses. Or they eat them filleted, with a glass of wine, or live and with the skin still on when there's no time to cook. It's not even the body count that matters anymore. What counts is the number of ways to trash the body: decapitation, dismemberment, impalings and (ranging into the realm of the printed word...
Catholic educators are proud that their institutions eschew the shopping- mall approach they see in public high schools, where students shop around for courses among endless electives. Their high schools routinely offer fewer electives and require a heavier load of basics than do inner-city public schools: four years of English; three years or more of math; three years of science, foreign language and social science; and at least one year of computer science. Students must show proficiency in a course before they can move up a grade. Period...
...When the yuppie trend came in, it drove out the coffee houses and turned Harvard Square into a shopping mall," Franzen explained, while hanging up a chain of cloth flags with hand-painted peace symbols...
This desire to recapture the tradition and character of bygone ball parks is a radical departure for the lords of baseball, who just a few years ago seemed entranced with the air-conditioned, carpeted sterility of the shopping-mall culture. Think back to the National League play-offs last October that pitted two teams bursting with young talent, the Cincinnati Reds and the Pittsburgh Pirates. It would have been an epic series, save for one problem: both teams played in nearly identical 1970 concrete slabs, monuments to the bottom-line obsessions that created multipurpose stadiums equally antiseptic for baseball, football...
...posh are the facilities that shoppers and tourists often pay a visit whether nature is calling or not. The rest rooms feature soft lighting, gold- plated fixtures, marble changing tables (complete with complimentary diapers), marble-and-gold phone booths and automatic toilets. Since the mall opened last August, says general manager David Wass, beaming, "it's not uncommon for people with relatives or visitors in town to show them the rest rooms...