Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...however, the secret is undisclosed, and all the publicity has only deepened the fear in Glendale and other communities in the Los Angeles area. While sporting goods stores are ringing up large sales in guns of all types, merchants at Eagle Rock Plaza in Los Angeles complain that business has dropped sharply since local papers reported that Cepeda and Johnson were picked up there. At Glendale High School, alma mater of Actor John Wayne, a note on the bulletin board warns single teachers not to go unaccompanied to or from the faculty Christmas party. Adults who were attending night courses...
...Loeb Drama Center and its Countway Library of Medicine. In line with the bank's desire for a "humane" building, Stubbins proposed to loft an aluminum-faced structure on huge columns 112-ft. tall, thus creating the space for the shopping area and atrium, a sunken entrance plaza with a waterfall tumbling down from street level, a renovated subway station and, of course, the new church. "Aesthetically," says Stubbins, 65, "the Citicorp Center brings back to the city lightness and brightness-it meets the street with drama, and opens up the city canyons in a way no other building...
...paying its dues to God as well as Mammon, Citicorp Center includes one of the most beautiful churches to be erected in Manhattan in this century, a jagged 85-ft.-high polygonal structure of granite and glass that stands free of the office tower and shares a sunken plaza with The Market...
...beginning, there was the Block. Between Lexington and Third Avenues, 54th and 53rd Streets, it housed such familiar neighborhood establishments as Carroll's Pub, Lexington Sandwich Shoppe, a Pizza Plaza, a Howard Johnson's snack counter. Also, there was a haute cuisine restaurant, Café Chauveron, the Medical Chambers Building, owned cooperatively by 40 doctors, and Saint Peter's Lutheran Church, a handsome two-spired Gothic structure erected in 1905 and all but deserted by a suburban-bound congregation...
...grandee and his wife, known as the Duke and Duchess of Plaza-Toro, initially appear two dimensional but that's because they float across stage on a gondola bearing a resemblance of sorts to Washington Crossing the Delaware. But nothing is flat about David S. Brown's and Diane Nabatoff's performances. Nabatoff manages to look both pinched and bombastic simultaneously. Uppercrustedly on the bourgeois make, Brown has the perfect Hogarthian face for the role: his oblivious facial reactions to his own spectacular antics make him all the funnier. With Brown as the Duke of Plaza-Toro...