Word: tower
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...agreed to do an issue from his San Diego prison cell. I guess we expected some kind of bleak, jailhouse blues--but no: Doc writes to inform us that the theme for his issue will be "Communication with Higher Intelligence"--an ambitious aim even from atop the loftiest ivory tower. But from behind bars...
...read in the business section of the Washington Post that Chicago, despite its best efforts, no longer has the tallest building in the world. I don't mean that the building in question, the Sears Tower, upped and moved to the suburbs while desperate city officials trotted alongside it, waving their final tax-abatement offers in a last-ditch effort to keep it where it was. That would have been on the front page of the Washington Post...
...Malaysia, not the first place that comes to mind when the conversation turns to the subject of imposing skylines. Chicago fought tooth and nail to avoid being dropped to the second slot. Apparently, its boosters do not look forward to driving an out-of-town visitor past the Sears Tower and saying, "To find a building taller than that, my friend, you'd have to go to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...
...Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat rejected this argument. Since Chicago is one of my favorite cities, I'm pleased to be able to reassure its residents that the rejection will have little impact on their lives. After all, the Sears Tower has been the tallest building in the world for the past 25 years, and practically nobody outside Chicago was aware of that...
...turns out, public impressions of what is the tallest or the largest or the oldest are not decided by precise measurements. Once the twin towers of the World Trade Center and the Sears Tower were built, for instance, I thought that those of us who pride ourselves on our accuracy should begin referring to the Empire State Building as "the third tallest building in the Greater New York area." Nobody else seemed to think that...