Word: suburban
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Argentine-born architect Cesar Pelli, now dean of the college of art and architecture at Yale. His Pacific Design Center of 1976 has been assimilated into the local folklore of Los Angeles quicker than any building in recent memory, because it is so violently at odds with its flat suburban context. Known as the Blue Whale, it is an immense exhibition hall, the Crystal Palace of the West Coast, providing more than 750,000 sq. ft. of space. The surface is not mirror, but semitranslucent blue glass, which glitters and disappears and re-forms against the dusty blue...
Gacy confessed on December 21 that he had sexually molested and murdered 32 young men. He buried 27 of the bodies at his house in suburban Chicago and dumped the other five bodies in the Des Plaines River...
Jewett said the early admissions applicants are generally a "very strong group" and tend to include a higher proportion of alumni children and students from metropolitan and suburban areas than does the admitted group as a whole...
Dallas merchants say Christmas sales may climb by 25%. Shoppers are packing malls in suburban Houston to buy stereos, TVs and Betamax recorders. Expensive furs, jewelry, silks and cashmeres are brisk sellers everywhere. Many retailers echo the report of a luggage salesman at Chicago's Marshall Field department store: "Customers are buying better quality. It's the old philosophy of being too poor to buy cheap...
...fight of Burlington, Vt., against the threat of the suburban mall [Nov. 13] compares with a buggy manufacturer obstructing the sale of autos in 1910. It is understandable, but hopeless. Most downtown areas, whether they are renovated or not, are now obsolete as shopping areas. They just don't give customers the convenience, hours and consideration they demand...