Word: malling
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BOSTON--Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair, who in the 1960s successfully sued to ban compulsory prayers in U.S. public schools, asked a federal court Tuesday to stop John Paul II fron celebrating a mass October 7 on the Washington Mall...
...that Americans have taken to mechanical cooling avidly and greedily. Many have become all but addicted, refusing to go places that are not air-conditioned. In Atlanta, shoppers in Lenox Square so resented having to endure natural heat while walking outdoors from chilled store to chilled store that the mall management enclosed and air-conditioned the whole sprawling shebang...
...forceful style and short temper provoked controversy, as did the projects that he backed. One was the renovation of the historic French Market and the construction of a riverside mall, inevitably nicknamed the Moon Walk. He was also a staunch advocate of the controversial $163 million Louisiana Superdome. Argued Moon: "They called King Ludwig of Bavaria mad for building all those elaborate castles. But now thousands of tourists come to see the castles. So Bavaria's rich, and old Ludwig's a hero again...
...flung settings of the book are straightforward. A suburb of Auckland, N.Z., is dominated by a North American-style shopping mall called Heaven-field-"a huge windowless pretence, as much an insinuation of Elsewhere as its own name or that of the city or the restaurant, Manhattan, as its entrance." Baltimore, Md., death place of Edgar Allan Poe, is recognizable, with its gray asphalt, red brick and black iron gratings, as are the affluent hills of Berkeley. "passing through a 'wilderness' phase where it was fashionable to let meadow grass and herbs grow as they pleased...
Romero's artistic glory is his ability to add a further dimension. He gives us our fun and then holds up the mirror so that we can see the blood dripping from our lips. Towards the end of the film, when a militant hippie motorcycle gang invades the shopping mall disrupting our heroes' idyllic existence and attempting to steal merchandise, we root for the zombies to eat them. When this low-life scum begins to dispatch zombies with startling efficiency and even more startling relish, we think "God damn sadists," and then: "Wait a minute--weren't we cheering this...