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The warning signs are everywhere. One shopping mall needed new steps to cover a yawning cavity where foundation and structure had parted. On many city streets, rows of boxlike shops have plunged several feet below crumbling sidewalks. Deep cracks creep along concrete walls of office buildings and townhouses. Floods strike...
When Judy Woodruff became a TV news anchor in Atlanta in 1972, the station ordered her to cut her shoulder-length hair. Mary Alice Williams was urged in 1979 by NBC's New York station to change her eye color with tinted contact lenses. Dorothy Reed was forbidden in...
Most damaging of all is changing sexual mores. Way Back When-any time before the sexual revolution of the '60s and '70s-drive-ins were "the only place to go for some privacy," recalls Manhattanite Vicki Slate, 40. "We certainly couldn't go to his house or...
Form has a way of decaying into formalism, especially when the original form was antiformalist. Nowadays Japanese department stores carry rows of cases displaying tea bowls and caddies; new ones-never mind the old, which may cost more than a suburban house-bear price tags of $15,000. If one...
The scene in the high-ceilinged chamber of Warsaw's Belvedere Palace had just the right amount of symbolism to satisfy history-minded Poles. There was General Wojciech Jaruzelski, standing ramrod straight in an olive-drab uniform encrusted with ten rows of ribbons, the very personification of his country...