Word: malls
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...reading a lot of existentialist novels, and one of them mentioned a poet named T. S. Eliot. In the Black Poets anthology, Ishmael Reed mentions “the hell that thrilled him so” in reference to Eliot. So I was at the Waldenbooks in the Sunrise Mall in Citrus Heights, California. Waldenbooks has terrible poetry sections, but you don’t know that when you’re young. There was all the usual schlocky stuff, like Robert Browning, that I just couldn’t get my mind around. And then there was a very...
...about the emotional struggle for normalcy: There?s good news for retailers as well. Three-quarters of Americans say they are no less likely to go to a mall or big store the day after Thanksgiving than they would be if the attacks had not happened, and the same number say they have no plans to spend less money than usual during the upcoming holiday season...
...soothsayers—employed post-grads, house tutors and fellow opportunity-hunters—do all of the above. But while you are at it do one other thing: get to the mall Cinderella and buy yourself a gown because at this ball those in pants-suits won’t get past the door...
...even without high-tech delivery systems, a single suicidal terrorist spraying a few drops of smallpox virus--or a liquid solution of Ebola or even plague--in a crowded mall or into the ventilation system of a large building could cause untold harm...
...thing that's so hard about defeating capitalism is that it springs up everywhere. A kiosk selling fire-fighter souvenirs, called the 911 Marketplace, has grown into a large, second-floor, center-of-the-mall store. Its co-owner Sean Moriarty, 31, a full-time St. Paul fire fighter, is learning just how fast capitalism moves: like the rest of the stores in the mall, his shop has had to mark down the T shirts that bear the Sept. 11 date. Gurdial Singh, 50, a turbaned Sikh, has lost some of the business on the AMERICA'S PRIDE shirts...