Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With guests clad in suits and jazz music piping in the background, the Weld gathering in the Georgian Ballroom of the Park Plaza Hotel on Boston Common seemed more like a cocktail party than a post-primary celebration...
...Plaza de Armas, the 44-year-old computer programmer joins a foreigner at a garden bar. Sipping on a fine, aged rum -- a rare treat -- he pours out the familiar Cuban litany of despair. He eats no breakfast or lunch and cannot find milk for his 10-year-old daughter. His car has no gas, his home no electricity. When he walks down Obispo at night, even the cheap tourist souvenirs tantalize him. He sips more rum. "People drink here to an extent you can't imagine," he says. "They don't go to work anymore. There is no hope...
Bobby S. Fred also uses an alias to run an independent record label -- which he refuses to name -- and to edit a post-punk zine called Bobby Is Fred. He makes his living stuffing burritos at a Del Taco in Los Angeles. Unlike wannabes who prowl Sunset Plaza looking to get noticed, Bobby craves obscurity. He enjoys saying his favorite activity is eating at such trendy restaurants as Spago -- by serving himself from the Dumpster out back. "Look, this is a nation of disenfranchised kids," says Bobby. "The reason we don't talk to the mainstream media is because...
...into a lead he never relinquished. Last Friday, with the success of her husband's presidency at stake, Hillary Rodham Clinton kicked off another bus tour, this one designed to rescue the Administration's campaign to overhaul the U.S. health-care system. Before a sweltering crowd packed into a plaza in downtown Portland, Oregon, the First Lady called on Congress to "do the right thing" by voting for a bill that satisfies the White House's primary goal: guaranteed health insurance for everyone. "The message is simple!" she shouted. "If we do not provide health insurance to every American, then...
...Copley Plaza Cinemas...