Word: malls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...does Beverly Hills' ultra-luxe Rodeo Drive get ready for an expected retail slump? By expanding, of course. So it was that klieg lights flashed and 50 fashion models strutted their stuff last week to launch a 23-store mall that cost $170 million to build on the famed shopping street. Known as Two Rodeo, the two-block project, which is designed to look as if it had been in place for a century, features an Italianate cobblestone lane called Via Rodeo that comes complete with a piazza, sculpted travertine fountains and a staircase patterned after the Spanish Steps...
...though they are spendthrifts. "We don't clothes-shop," pipes up Jacqueline, an engaging child with lemon-colored ringlets and blueberry eyes. Jennifer nods in agreement. "I can't remember the last time I was in a mall." The couch in the living room is from a friend who bought a new one; the tables come from her parents, the hutch from his. "Everything here has a story to it," says Jennifer. The one new item is a clock on the wall with a picture of the Grateful Dead on the face. They spotted it one afternoon at a local...
...ceremony at the library, however, felt like a culmination. The compound at Yorba Linda is a single-story, pink sandstone museum and library that cost $21 million and looks like a suburban mini-mall. It stands beside the small, white frame farmhouse where Nixon was born in 1913. Having consecrated the place -- his life from birth through presidency all handsomely compacted there -- Nixon completed a circle. As he spoke last week, he seemed a little tired and rambling. It had after all been an exhausting 77-year circuit from the room where he was born to this ritual of fulfillment...
...result, most of Harvard's bookstores offer a selection that you won't find in the Waldenbooks at the mall back home. Of course, most shops display the standard selection of bestsellers and books on tape. But look a little harder and you'll find that the Square has a store to fit almost every book lover's taste (and pocketbook...
Around the block is Temptations, which opened last year on the site of the old Haagen-Dazs. Temptations has more offbeat flavors than Licks does, but its mall decor is slightly unsettling. Temptations also weighs your yogurt portion, lest they give you that extra tenth of an ounce. Personally, we feel violated when someone weighs our yogurt...