Word: malling
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...that many of these shops have closed, Sage says, people choose to go to a mall, with easily accessible parking, rather than coming to the Square. It's just not worth the effort any longer, he says...
Retailers, in particular, are salivating at the possibilities. When you walk through a shopping mall in the future, stores will be able to beam messages tailored just for you: the lawn mower you were asking about last weekend has come in; the casual pants you always buy are 40% off today...
...they say, all this communication isn't bringing people together; it's pulling them apart. Go to the mall, and you'll see strolling couples--one partner yammering on a cell phone, the other feeling ignored. Go on vacation, and you'll see kids fending for themselves while their parents are running mini-offices from their beach blanket. My boss complains he doesn't have weekends free anymore. He tries to get away--taking his daughter, for example, on a Sunday romp in a park--but while she runs in the fields, he's busy checking e-mail...
...name sounds as normal as can be: Tom Green. But over the past year and a half, this MTV sensation, Pepsi pitchman and movie star apparent has slurped milk from a cow's teat, snorkeled for pennies in a shopping-mall fountain, worn an ELVIS SUCKS T shirt at Graceland, fought Monica Lewinsky with a lightsaber and gargled with mustard. Contrary to rumor, however, he did not dress as Hitler to attend a bar mitzvah. Although it is true that he humped a dead moose on camera...
...black suits and women with Marge Simpson-size hair. To the quiet tick of a deep-voiced drum, they strip to their skivvies. Then the four percussionists in the pit lay down a loud backbeat, and the half-clothed dancers start flying crazily through the air. They look like mall rats at a suburban prom--but their airy lifts and arabesques are straight out of Swan Lake...