Word: malling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suffered the usual torments of the underground poet moving into the mainstream, and was worried that his band had sold out, that it was attracting - the wrong kind of fans (e.g., the guys who used to beat him up). True, he liked the money that went with mall-rat adulation. But in interviews he exuded a pain beyond standard-issue superstar whining. He said his heroin use was a kind of self-medication for stomach pains, but what he really seemed in search of was psychic equilibrium...
Imagine hearing the Captain say over and over again, "On your right you can see Brown, University...and on your left the city's social center, a shopping mall...
...mouse costs an estimated $50,000 a day, employing such notables as Jody Powell, former press secretary to Jimmy Carter and now a top public relations operative. Ironically, Powell was one of the leaders in a 1988 campaign that stopped millionaire developer Til Hazel from dropping a shopping mall right onto the second Manassas battlefield. Powell claims that nine of his ancestors fought for the Confederacy, and mall construction would have put pizza parlors on the crucial Stuart's Hill. "He must have needed the money," complains Snyder, one of Powell's erstwhile comrades who marched with him then...
...They were going to bulldoze Confederate bones for that mall," protests Powell today. "Disney's America is four miles from the battlefield. People out there are fooling themselves if they think development is not coming along that Highway 66 corridor. This is about as good as you can get." That may be true, but it is hardly a solace for those whose imaginations still hear the crash of muskets and see General Thomas Jonathan Jackson standing like a stone wall...
Harvard students and other Cantabrigians were saddened and considerably surprised this week to find out that the Stockpot, a wellliked restaurant in the Galleria mall, had suddenly closed Tuesday afternoon...