Word: plaza
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...kids who gather on sunny afternoons on a concrete plaza at the corner of hip boulevards Meiji and Omotesando seem to be taking their cultural cues from myriad psychedelic compass points: Ibiza, Goa, San Francisco. Hopping trains into the city from all over Japan, these teens and twentysomethings flock for the express purpose of flaunting some of the wackiest Mad Hatter outfits east of Fillmore West. They get gussied up in sidewalk dragging, patchwork skirts under military jackets, or blood red, cropped kimonos paired with platforms and body piercings. The kids tote tom-toms, shopping bags, vinyl purses shaped like...
Over last weekend, timed to the Feast of San Ranieri, Pisa's patron saint, the plaza beneath the tower was reopened to the public. The tower itself will be reopened in the fall--but only to 30 visitors at a time, accompanied by a guide. And no leaning...
...significant contributions to GE's culture is his concept of "boundarylessness." After the layoffs, Welch cleared out the underbrush in his remaining businesses by streamlining and de-bureaucratizing them. He reduced to five the layers of management that exist between the factory floor and his office at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York...
...then there were the times I went away. At different points in my college career, I have found myself, variously: burrowing through the musty Gov Docs stacks to collect statistical data; flying into New York to interview a movie director; spinning at the Park Plaza Hotel; lounging in the VIP room of London’s Ministry of Sound; in love...
April 27, 1974: About 150 students demonstrate in Forbes Plaza in support of the striking printers, who now demand a 5.9 percent increase in wages...