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...Civics, and brakes that tended to fade on the first Accords. J. David Power, head of the California consulting firm that bears his name, lauds Honda's attention to owners' needs in designing its cars. He recalls one Honda design team that spent several days at a California shopping mall interviewing drivers as they loaded bags into their cars. Their investigations paid off in the redesigned Civic hatchback...
...county's coast oozes affluence. Atrium Court, part of Newport Beach's Fashion Island mall, is a marble-floored enclave of jewelry and apparel shops, with an entire ground level given over to gourmet markets and eateries -- caviar and quail to go. Matrons browse among $11,000 silk dresses and $5,000 crocodile handbags in the boutiques of Clothier Amen Wardy, an ex-Texan who is happy to send clients a "clothesmobile" staffed with a fitter. South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa is equally posh. Yachts and other pleasure craft are so numerous that dock space in Newport Beach...
...they had their first shoot-out with another gang, the Creepers. In the past several months, members have been linked to armed robbery, rape, assault and other crimes. In an intimidating show of strength in February, gang members descended upon the Atlantis Youth Club, situated in a suburban shopping mall. "They were hanging out in the parking lot," said Ernest Marshall, a consultant to the Atlanta Youth Federation. "I saw guns laying on the front seat of the cars. They even had UZIs...
Three decades later the scene in Budapest could hardly be more changed. The streets once strewn with bodies are jammed with eager shoppers and gaudily garbed Western tourists. Natives and visitors alike stroll the elegant pedestrian mall on Vaci Street, past boutiques stuffed with designer fashions and electronics stores filled with imported stereos and home computers. Relaxing in glossy Vorosmarty Square, they may enjoy coffee and pastry at marble-fronted Gerbaud's cafe. For dinner, they stop at well-appointed restaurants offering rich meals of pork and beef spiced with paprika, groaning dessert carts and good Hungarian wines. By comparison...
Listen! The London air is sweet with jubilation. Few cars this day, and no Klaxons in the central part of town. Just bells pealing gaily and the sound of horses prancing in unison along the Mall. A great fanfare of trumpets arises from Westminster Abbey, and the stirring chords of Elgar resound through the vaulted nave. Then a hush. Through the breath-held stillness, two voices ring out. "I will." "I will." And then a great roar from outside, and rising above the spellbound listeners, beautiful and light, an aria by Mozart, and then another...