Word: malling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Since the One Brattle development became reality three years ago, various chains have made inroads into the Square, and historic institutions like Elsie's sandwich shop, a 30-year fixture, have quietly gone out of business. Harvard Square has become, in some ways, more like an open-air mall than a quaint shopping district, and that worries traditionalists...
...Harvard Square is a unique place that is world-recognized as a center for thinking, creativity and diversity," says Frank S. Kramer, owner of the Harvard Bookstore. "So if Harvard Square were to be filled with the same stores that you would see in a mall, it would be the very opposite of what it stands...
...political connections have landed them full-time jobs punching buttons on automatic elevators. Gingrich has even held meetings to decide what meetings he should be having. Before the meetings begin, he often tries to squeeze in an early-morning walk among the monuments and museums of Washington's grassy Mall. Before he goes home each night, he insists upon a session at the House gym, part of his losing battle to keep the button on his suit jacket within striking distance of its buttonhole. ("Remember! Exercise today! Every day!" he barks at his scheduler...
...arrived as neither a leather-jacketed Johnny Depp knock-off nor a mall-stud Tom Cruise clone. Instead, the Londoner brought urbane sex appeal back to the screen. Womankind swooned at Grant's portrayal of a befuddled, beguiling wit in Four Weddings and a Funeral...
...Jersey mini-mall, the convenience-store guy and his pal from the video store talk dirty but think long and wistfully about the life that is passing them by. Their customers and girlfriends are just as lost, goofy and irrelevant. The budget for Kevin Smith's movie was $27,575, but he's the Chekhov of slacker life -- and maybe of America's secret life...