Word: sidewalk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, Rouse's vision was so influential that it eventually took on an anesthetizing quality of its own. The restored warehouses, quaint specialty shops, cookie stations and sidewalk jugglers came to seem as artificial and cliched as the suburban malls they were intended to compete with. But Rouse, who died last week at 81, wrought more changes and brought more hope to the American city than any builder...
...choice of locations enhances his sense of visual style. The neon-lit lobby corridor, the elevator filled with bright red lights and the rows of seats in primary colors along a downtown New York City sidewalk all complement the fast-paced script. A newspaper shop provides a wonderful locale for Lee to pit Girl 6 against a lecherous store owner...
...loose with improvisations in at least one take per scene. Lane's own favorite came when Albert learns that Armand doesn't want him around to meet the uptight parents of the girl Armand's son wants to marry. Lane went high-flying hysterical, screaming to onlookers at a sidewalk cafe ("I'm a homeless person!"), then fainting dead away. "All the extras on the street applauded," says Lane. "And Mike looked at us and said, 'Well, I got to admit, it was very funny.'" Nichols opted for a quieter take, but says he was in stitches for most...
...during the day, charter buses would pull into the Galleria parking lot and disgorge shoppers from as far away as Canada. But the city bus wasn't allowed on mall property. Wiggins had to get out 300 yards away on Walden Avenue, a busy seven-lane highway with no sidewalk. On the morning of Dec. 14, mounds of snow lined the shoulder. Wiggins was almost across the highway when the light changed, and she was hit by a 10-ton dump truck. She died of her injuries...
...cuffs casually rolled up so we could better appreciate the flash of his footwork. If the sinuous elegance of his great (and friendly) rival shone most brilliantly on the polished surface of a ballroom floor, Kelly's robust athleticism seemed to rise most exuberantly from a gritty city sidewalk. Astaire put us in touch with our romantic ideals and with that perfection of manner the rest of us attain only in our more blissful daydreams. At his best, Kelly reminded us that, in reality, we are obliged to improvise our happiness with such rough materials as fall to hand...