Word: plazas
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...mock the self-righteous vacuity of modern suburban architecture. "Hell, we are all scared of technology and what it will do to us," says Wines. An unsettling view of what Wines calls "the American mobilized experience" is offered in the firm's Ghost Parking Lot at the Hamden Plaza shopping center in Hamden, Conn.: a row of 20 automobiles submerged to varying depths under a layer of asphalt...
Officials considered, but rejected, a number of other potential sites, including Harvard Square, Holyoke Center Plaza, Boylston Hall and the Yard...
...Thursday, more than a million South Koreans gathered in a chill rain for an emotional memorial service in Seoul's huge Sixteenth of May Plaza. On a long altar surrounded by thousands of white and yellow chrysanthemums, 17 incense urns were placed in front of photographs of the deceased. Later, military pallbearers wearing white masks, a traditional mark of respect for the dead, led the procession to the cemetery. Representatives from 47 countries were present, including a seven-member U.S. delegation headed by Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. In a trembling voice, South Korean Prime Minister Kim Sang Hyup...
...bonnet, explaining the benefits, and off she went, becoming Miss Greater Syracuse, Miss New York and, ultimately, Miss America, who now, upon leaving David Letterman's studio at NBC, received a hand-delivered letter from the William Morris Agency proposing representation. Back at the Plaza, there was another hand-delivered letter from David Merrick, the producer, proposing a discussion of her stage career. (No one uses stamps in this town any more.) Things seemed to be going Williams...
...government. The government's newly issued primer at first seems to be little more than a Dick-and-Jane clone. But one of the examples of words beginning with the letter d is defense, and it is accompanied by a photograph of soldiers. "Valiant militias march into the plaza," the caption reads. "The militias are from the people. The pueblo is ready for defense." In secondary schools, liberal disciplines in the Nicaraguan social sciences and humanities have been downgraded or replaced by courses on revolutionary history and Marxist economics and sociology. Even a natural science class...