Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lived: the drama, the presentation, the superb physical ability, the personality. I've always felt proud he was from Appleton. It's living in reflected glory, I guess." It wasn't until 1985 that the city finally got around to honoring its most celebrated citizen, dedicating its new downtown plaza in his honor. The house where the Weiss family used to live stood just to one side, notes William A. Brehm Jr., a card-carrying magician who is also the city's director of planning and development. "Our plaza," beams Brehm, young Bill's father, "is really Houdini's backyard...
...plaza's most striking feature is a large abstract sculpture that sits atop a raised brick platform as though it were on a stage. The piece bears the title of one of Houdini's most famous tricks: Metamorphosis. Re-enacted time after time, the routine by now is familiar. The magician's assistant is handcuffed and placed in a sack, which is tied and put into a trunk. The trunk is in turn secured with locks and chains. The magician, standing atop the trunk, briefly raises a curtain. Abracadabra. Suddenly, the magician's assistant stands in the place...
...black bulletproof Mercedes limousine pulled up at the crowded downtown plaza as the final United Left rally before the balloting in Lima's tight mayoral race was getting under way. Peering through the dark tinted windshield, the man behind the wheel discreetly -- and expertly -- gauged the size and mood of the crowd. Then he made a quick decision: the candidate for mayor put up by his ruling center-left Popular American Revolutionary Alliance (A.P.R.A.) needed help. The limo wheeled around and headed back to the presidential palace half a mile away. Bucking a tradition that has kept Peruvian chief executives...
...office of the president of the U.N. Security Council, Shultz listened for 40 minutes to ideas on how the case could be resolved. That night the Secretary of State called at the Soviet mission to spell out his reply. Then, on Thursday night, Shultz slipped out of his U.N. Plaza Hotel suite for more talks at the U.S. mission. Both sides, Shultz said, were making a "genuine effort to get beyond" the Daniloff affair. In a broader context, the U.S. and the Soviets took care to avoid inflaming the crisis. < The Justice Department postponed a court hearing...
...strained mood in Washington contrasted greatly with the atmosphere after a G-5 meeting at New York City's Plaza Hotel in September of last year. There the Western powers agreed to reduce the value of the dollar in concert, and thus try to undercut the U.S. trade deficit. In fact the dollar had already begun to decline, starting in February 1985, but the Plaza pact marked a commitment to continue the trend. From its February peak, the dollar fell by some 30% against other major currencies within 18 months...