Word: malling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brisk walk across the bridge from the Alewife T-stop, Fresh Pond's poor excuse for a mall engulfs the horizon. However, nestled between the shadows of Staples and Toys `R' Us is Jack's Smoke Shop, housing both Megabucks lotto tickets and Macanudo cigars in a single cramped room. According to owner Sonny Cimenian, Jack's boasts 135 cigar brand names along with pipe tobacco, humidors and Keno. Cigar smokers trek from as far as Hyde Park and other distant outposts of Boston to browse through the boxes of Ashtons, Padrons and Montecristos lining the shelves. Sonny will...
...employee at the CambridgeSide Galleria Mall's Abercrombie & Fitch store reports that an unknown person stole clothing while in a dressing room...
...Vegas now seems like a giant strip mall of world travel: let's see it faster; let's have it newer; let's not have to go far from home to visit it. Here's a suggestion to my fellow Americans: Go take a stroll along the shores of the real Lake Como, stand beneath the real Eiffel Tower-- and as a bonus, you won't have to have the constant ringing of noisy slot machines in your ears. JIM KERR Del Mar, Calif...
...food fight in the dining hall. I still get "psyched" to be asked to dances by guys who are shorter than I am and I constantly punctuate my sentences with "whatever!" Discontent over bra size is an all-too-frequent topic of discussion among my girlfriends. The mall is one of my favorite escapes. The last movie I saw was Adam Sandler's Waterboy, an adolescent masterpiece. Madonna's "Immaculate Collection" resides permanently in my Walkman. The lives and hairstyles of Dawson and Joey and the Salinger five are still frequent topics of conversation. How much has really changed since...
...used to perpetually reinvent one's avatar: photos and drawings, bonnets and six-guns, mascots and blackboards, halos and bongs. Palace vets amass hoards of props and trade them like baseball cards. Sites on the indispensable A-to-Z List of active palaces blare come-ons like HUGE PROP MALL! Collect enough props and build a cool palace, and you can stage a runway show in your own private Versailles. "Vanity pages built the Web," says Randy Farmer, co-founder of Electric Communities, the company that bought the Palace earlier this year and is behind its latest resurgence. "And vanity...