Word: plaza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both inside and outside the U.S. Supreme Court last week, the endless argument over abortion came to a critical confrontation. Outside there was a | raucous standoff on the courthouse steps and plaza, where some 200 demonstrators, pro and con, sang, chanted and shouted. Inside, where the noise could not penetrate, the nine Justices were assembled to hear arguments in William L. Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, a case that could leave in tatters the pivotal Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in 1973. In both places many of the issues were the same. But inside, though the language...
Coppola's Life Without Zoe, a sort of Eloise story set at the Sherry Netherland Hotel instead of the Plaza, is the weakest entry. It occasionally says something mildly amusing about the overprivileged children of New York & City's rich and famous. But Coppola and his co-writer, who happens to be his 17-year-old daughter Sofia, cannot settle on a tone for their overplotted yarn of a Junior Ms. Fixit, working simultaneously on the cases of a poor little rich boy and her parents' wavering marriage. The Coppola team tries satire and sentiment, but the story...
...perch from which Lee Harvey Oswald gunned down a President. The book cartons have been arranged just the way Oswald placed them 25 years ago to avoid being seen by co-workers. True, a clear screen keeps tourists from entering the assassin's lair, but the view of Dealey Plaza from accessible windows is about the same. One cannot, however, bring a rifle to check out the sights. A metal detector has been set up to spot gun toters...
...dumpsters visually pleasing. The new complex will also be integrated with its famous neighbor, the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, which was designed by French architect Le Corbusier. The ramp from the Carpenter Center which now opens into the unused rear of the Fogg will lead to a plaza and the new main entrance to the Fine Arts Library...
Most experts thought it did not work. The dollar fell without creating a recession, but America's trade deficit has barely declined. "Come on," argues Baker, whose tolerance for criticism is not his strongest suit. "Can you imagine where we'd be today on the trade deficit if the Plaza process hadn't begun...