Word: stationers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last extended bit of warmth I was to receive for much of the day was the train ride to New Haven. I stepped out of the station into a wind chill that would make the most rabid Green Bay Packer-Backer wither...
...quaint blocks of riverfront warehouses; that Pasadena, Calif., tore up a fine commercial neighborhood to build a standard aluminum shopping mall; that Madison, Wis., let Burger King raze an 1850s stone house for its headquarters; that New York City tore down McKim, Mead and White's glorious Pennsylvania Station...
...tide has turned. Today it is almost obligatory for a city to have a fine old theater or train station or office building that has been saved, spiffed up and put back to good, if not necessarily its original use -- a building that 20 years ago would have been pulled down without a second thought. Buying paperbacks and chocolate-chip cookies in what used to be a warehouse and watching stand-up comedians in what used to be a stable and living in what used to be a factory are now, happily, coast-to-coast cliches, not novelties. As ever...
...freshman. The Amtrak would leave South Station for New Haven at six in the morning. I was going to catch it and sleep on the ride down...
...issue are three air bases, a naval station and other facilities maintained by 12,000 American troops. Of special concern is the Torrejon air base outside Madrid, which houses 72 F-16 fighters assigned to help protect NATO's southern and central flanks. The Spanish want all the F-16s redeployed to some other country. The U.S. has offered to remove one-third of them. Concluded a European diplomat: "The two sides are at a dead...