Word: malls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Square by regional and to a lesser extent national chains...is transforming its general character, raising rents while making it less specific as a place. These operations are attracted by the high volume of business in the Square just as they might be attracted to a particularly thriving shopping mall...
...Like A Mall...
...leap toward the nation's center. He had seen Chase County's Flint Hills and the bits of remaining tallgrass prairie as a boy. He was attracted in part because the historical past was very recent (white settlement began in 1856) and because the present is isolated from shopping- mall modernity, so that both are faded like old jeans...
...Souper Salad guy?" asked a cashier at the eatery in The Garage, referring to restaurant in that mall...
...culture" of our suburbs has fared little better. This summer every mall Cineplex in the nation showed The Doctor, T2 and City Slickers. Every mall has a Gap, the Wonder Bread of clothing stores. Upscale malls have The Sharper Image; downscale malls have Spencer Gifts. Utility and necessity have faded into the distance as things suburbanites don't have to bother with...