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...plot: two stories set in a late-night, neon Hong Kong. Or, actually, the same story, told twice with cunning variations: a cop thinks he's in love with one woman, then finds he?s drawn to another, more mysterious one. "Chungking has enough wit and pace to keep any mall crowd entertained," says Corliss. But with a number of exceptional films already to his credit, it's Wong himself that people should watch: "Wong made 'Chungking' in just 23 days, and the film?s mad-dash energy is nicely reflected in his quartet of stars," Corliss says. "Wong...
Soon after her death, the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, which oversees public transportation in the area, released internal documents to show it had tried for more than eight years to get the mall owners, the Syracuse-based Pyramid Companies, to allow the No. 6 bus to stop in the mall's parking lot. A Pyramid official blames the N.F.T.A. for not moving the bus stop to a safer spot on the mall's perimeter. But a former owner of a shoe store at the Galleria came forward to say that in his lease negotiations with the mall, a Pyramid official...
...racial restrictions because that's illegal. But they can do it through other rules and regulations." Says Henry Cisneros, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development: "Success and prestige today means not having to look at people who are poor. That's what that bus stop at the mall said: 'Don't remind us; don't force...
...Cobb County, Georgia, Speaker Newt Gingrich's district, Republican state senator Chuck Clay fought unsuccessfully to prevent the intermingling of the county's transit system with that of metropolitan Atlanta because he feared that the local mall would be invaded by "bands of urban Atlanta teenagers...who aren't there to try on suits." In Pelham, New York, the mayor recently called for the demolition of a footbridge that spans the Hutchinson River Parkway and links wealthy, largely white Pelham with poorer, racially mixed Mount Vernon. And Washington's exclusive Georgetown neighborhood, home to many members of Congress, opted...
...Buffalo at least, things may be starting to change. After Cynthia Wiggins' death, most citizens declared themselves to be horrified and shamed by the mall's policies. Perhaps because of a threatened boycott by the Urban League, the N.A.A.C.P. and the Buffalo Teachers Federation, the Galleria and two other local malls all quickly agreed to put city bus stops on their property. The No. 6 now has a convenient stop in front of Kaufmann's, just a few steps from Arthur Treacher's. But Cynthia Wiggins will never...