Word: plaza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expectant throng that gathered last week in Mexico City's Zdcalo, the vast stone plaza fronting on the presidential National Palace, included labor leaders, congressmen, bankers, politicians-a virtual cross section of Mexico's power elite...
People in Detroit would be a little bummed, of course, because that early evening stroll on Hart Plaza would be just a bit soggy...
...master tends to assign his novels a topic. In The Mackerel Plaza it was the state of religion in the U.S. I Hear America Swinging concerned the manner and mores of the newly liberated male; Comfort Me With Apples chose the form of parody for a series of hilarious lectures on modern literature. Here, sexual harassment is the ordure of the day. Voluptuous, innocent Daisy Dobbin, an investigative reporter, is sent undercover into New York offices to collect evidence for her feminist editor Bobsy Diesel. But it is the leathery Bobsy who does the harassing, vigorously attempting to seduce Daisy...
...chances of a public concert in Boston anytime soon seemed to disappear yesterday when the Stones, citing security concerns, officially rejected an invitation from Boston Mayor Kevin H. White to stage an open-air free performance Sunday afternoon on City Hall Plaza...
...Ronald Reagan, received the news at 11 p.m. local time, but decided that there was no need at the moment to waken the President. The two aides monitored the news for the next 5½ hours before calling Reagan, in his suite on the same floor of the Century Plaza hotel, at 4:24 a.m. Meese said later, "The President was in charge, and if there had been any action he needed to take, he would have been awakened." Reagan saw nothing wrong with the delay. Said he: "If our planes were shot down, yes, they'd wake...