Word: pizzas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...permitted. Skeptical visitors are assured by bubbly tour escorts that the city will indeed be built, and will produce the best of all possible worlds, urban life in a rural setting. Guide Ann Whitehill, 23, earnestly tells a tour group, "In the finished city there will even be pizza parlors." "And neighbors who are friends," adds Ralph Kratz, 42, a civil engineer on the Arcosanti staff. Indisputably, the project has already become established as one of the more curious vessels into which individuals intent on finding somehow, somewhere, a better life, might pour their hopes...
Four years ago, 20,000 whooping Democrats blew into New York City, chomped its pizza, downed its booze and donned their funny hats. They were confident. They sensed a win. Their host, on the other hand, was all smiles, but shaky. It had no confidence and sensed collapse. Oh, the city scrubbed its face, all right; got out the good china, the usual. But New York was broke, after all. Bonds were finally due. Corporations headed for the hills. When the Democrats showed up in 1976, New York was like a Marx Brothers hotel with Margaret Dumont in the lobby?...
...Baltimore pizza parlor, a patrolman shoots and cripples JaWan McGee, a black youth, after seeing him reach for a shiny object in his pocket. It turns out to be a cigarette lighter. In Flint, Mich., an unarmed teen-ager fleeing a burglary is shot in the back by a policeman with a shotgun. In Chicago, three plainclothesmen severely beat a former mental patient who refuses to stop smoking in a subway car and resists arrest. Five hours later, he is dead. In Philadelphia, a 94-year-old black man who refuses to let utility company representatives into his apartment...
Traveling farther afield, the city's only high school--one block east of Harvard Yard--is ringed by pizza places. Black students congregate at one and whites frequent another, but late nights both Angelos and Mass House of Pizza are accessible to all. Get a roast beef sub at Angelos, then wander across the high school campus for a large cheese pie at "Mass House...
...Boston does boast some of the best real pizza in Monroe Doctrine precincts. The North End--the Italian section--Six Flags Over Italian Cuisine, an amusement park for the palate. The best pizza, the best beer, the best atmosphere--all belong to Regina's, the uncontested queen of North End fare...