Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Back in the 1960s, when spick-and-span, won't-the-future-be-fab urban schemes were still regarded with automatic enthusiasm by almost everyone, and when suburban malls were suddenly sucking shoppers away from central cities, the idea seemed perfect: build enclosed bridges -- skywalks! -- between the upper stories of downtown office buildings, stores and hotels, and nobody will ever have to go outdoors at all. Fortunately, most such future-a-go-go notions of the era -- moving sidewalks or 300-story apartment towers -- never came to much...
...more than a score of cities in the U.S. and Canada have become climate-controlled labyrinths. Calgary has 42 bridges running 6 miles that link 110 buildings. The American skywalks (also called skyways, skybridges, * or, in the unfortunate case of Charlotte, N.C., the Overstreet Mall) are concentrated in the upper Midwest, where winters make strolling problematic. Two separate systems in Minneapolis and St. Paul consist of 73 bridges running 6 1/2 miles between 65 city blocks; Des Moines's 32 bridges connect 21 downtown blocks. Most of Detroit's 20 "tubes" have been built since...
...murderous moment came during the late-afternoon languor, the time for a last cool drink before dinner or a final stretch of sun on the ship's upper deck. Suddenly, the holiday mood aboard the City of Poros, a day cruiser plying the islands in the Saronic Gulf, was shattered by grenade blasts and a fusillade of automatic-weapon fire. For about five minutes, several assailants, possibly as many as four, raked the deck of the 688-ton vessel. They then escaped, apparently by jumping overboard. The hit squad left nine people dead and 47 injured...
...giant blue dome. The Hyatt Regency became the symbol of the city, in the tradition of New York's Empire State Building and San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge -- so much so that people who wanted to commit suicide in a showy way started diving from its upper floors into the lobby. Today the Hyatt Regency can't even be seen from most parts of downtown. It's dwarfed by higher buildings. There is no longer much point in diving into its lobby...
...mayor. congress and its members are much more sophisticated in handling a war and are far less likely to be pushed around by the executive branch. The vast military and civilian bureaucracies are now taken for granted, and many neighborhoods, once predominantly Black, have been taken over by young, upper-middle class professionals...