Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country that made them famous? After nearly three decades of community agitation, the Hollywood Museum is still only the promise of an empty lot next to Mann's Chinese Theater. The stars' footprints would have to lead east. Few guessed that they would lead to a working-class neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., just a short subway ride from Manhattan...
...AMMI exudes the comfortable musk of a neighborhood Bijou miraculously restored, London's MOMI has eyes to play the Palladium. Not that the two institutions have radically different means or ends. Both occupy about 9,000 sq. ft. of exhibition space. Both display a Nam June Paik piece, clips from the compilation film Precious Images, and a model of a drive-in theater. Both have been ages in the planning, though MOMI's 1978 prospectus preceded AMMI's by three years, and a trace of bantering rancor shows through the Brits' geniality toward their upstart colonial rival. Perhaps because MOMI...
...Gillis, the director of the Mayor's Office of Neighborhood Services, says that one of the university's primary goals should be to keep students on campus...
Some students and Boston city officials fear, though, that even a partial exodus of undergraduates could raise rents in the Allston-Brighton neighborhood of Boston, where many off-campus B.U. students live. Such an increase in living expenses would force low-income families out of the area...
Back in the innocent days of the early primaries, before neighborhood meetings were supplanted by motorcades and media events, Dukakis and Bush had to respond to questions from ordinary citizens. These days, such real-life , voters are useful only as scenic backdrops. That is why it was striking on Labor Day morning when Dukakis tried to hold an informal town meeting with a few dozen voters in South Philadelphia. The questions on schools and the environment were serious, but so was the jeering from 100 antiabortion protesters, who turned a picturesque event into near chaos. The moral: a Dukakis aide...