Word: malls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voice over the loud speaker at Paul's Mall resonates clearly. "Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Mr. Taj Mahal." Mr. Taj Mahal? The name sounds pretentious enough. I can't help but wonder how many people in the world have been similarly introduced as Mr. Westminister Abbey. Ms. Parthenon, Dr. Eiffel Tower or Mrs. Coliseum. But as soon as the lights come on and the man struts on stage, all preconceived doubts about Mr. Taj Mahal are quickly erased. His presence is charged with a playfulness that know of no pretentions and his music oozes with the mmmmmmmmmmm...
...Real Thing), or adapts a Carole King song originally recorded by The Monkees ("Take a Giant Step"), or sings with the Pointer Sisters (Recycling the Blues and Other Related Stuff and Oooh So Good 'N Blues), he creates tasteful, non-commercial music. And last week at Paul's Mall, with the help of his six-man back-up band, his music entwined the sounds of country blues, gospel, jazz, rhythm and blues and reggae. Says Taj, "What most people don't understand is that all musics are related...
...community groups aren't the only fragmented interests in town that coalesce only to kill an issue they don't like. The Harvard Square Businessmen, after several years of leaderless lethargy, quickly consolidated forces when the 1972 Brattle Street walk project apparently threatened their businesses. The Brattle pedestrian mall, a Cornelia Wheeler-backed project, closed off Brattle St. at Brattle Square to all but emergency traffic. The project lasted for six months until. Wheeler claims, Square retailers chose to brand the mall a scapegoat for slumping trade and successfully petitioned the council to scrap the measure...
...Soviet version of Manhattan's towering World Trade Center. Scheduled for partial completion in 1978, the $110 million complex, which is largely financed with U.S. money, will contain offices for 1,200 employees, plus 625 apartments, 600 hotel rooms, restaurants, a swimming pool, convention hall and shopping mall. All are supposed to provide aid and comfort to American and other foreign businessmen visiting or living in Moscow while doing business with the Soviets...
...dimensions of jazz. Though characterized by a new style, he has yet to alienate jazz purists while at the same time he incorporates those on the rock-jazz border into his wide scope of admirers. Miles puts on a great show and the intimate atmosphere of Pall's Mall should provide a perfect setting for his inspiring instrumentation. Miles Davis. October 1-6. Pall's Mall. For ticket information call...