Word: malling
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Weird, heavy and polychrome, the 15-story Portland Building might be Sarastro's Temple of Isis magically transposed from some second-rate set for Mozart's The Magic Flute into the shadows of banal skyscrapers along Portland's Transit Mall. It takes up the entire block between the Italian Renaissance city hall and the neoclassical Multnomah County Courthouse...
...British security officials last month when the President stayed at Windsor Castle. Still, the Queen may need more security than she thinks. Only 13 months before her un scheduled bedside audience, a bystander fired six blank pistol shots in her direction as she was riding down London's Mall to the Trooping of the Color. As Alice might have put it, God-and tighter security-save the Queen...
...assets of only about $525 million, or a mere fraction of those held by large commercial lenders like New York's Citibank, which counts nearly $105 billion in assets. Yet the tremors from Penn Square's fall were felt far beyond the bank's stuccoed shopping-mall office...
...merchant genius of the Phoenicians seemed to linger over the land that Lebanon inherited from them. Beirut, a bright, amiable amalgam of beach resort and international bank and world-class shopping mall and neon whorehouse, was invariably called the Paris of the Middle East. It may have been more like Monte Carlo, crossed with Miami Beach and Zurich. The Lebanese were cultured and vividly commercial. They stood precisely at the intersection of Western and Middle Eastern culture, and took a handsome profit by mediating between the two. They have the highest literacy rate and the only real parliamentary democracy...
...says. "The thing I try to do is use a philosophy which I've developed over the years: Give respect, and you will receive it. Everyone desires respect, and I have fun at what I do. Hey, it's not hard to say 'Hi' to a kid at a mall...