Word: landmarking
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WASHINGTON: TIME?s Elaine Shannon reports that law enforcement authorities across the U.S. ?are on heightened alert, watching as intensively as they can? to prevent violent attacks on women's clinics as abortion proponents and pro-lifers on Wednesday commemorate the 24th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in 1973. Federal agents, who have investigated 175 clinic attacks to date, continue to search for leads as to who is responsible for two bombings at abortion clinics in Atlanta and Tulsa last week. "There is evidence, and it's evidence that could identify...
...hearing was one of several meetings the commission has held to discuss whether Read Block can be declared a historical landmark...
Sullivan said that a site is eligible for landmark designation if it is associated with one or more famous people or events or if it is significant to the broad economic, social or architectural history of the city...
...quilt, that collection of nearly 50,000 squares of fabric devoted to the dead. Gays have always been divided on this display. While some find the quilt a touching memorial and a useful political tool, others consider it a cemetery designed by the Ladies' Home Journal. I joined the landmark gay march on Washington in 1993, as a snob who had tended to avoid such gung-ho events, wary of all that coerced hugging. But that year everyone went. Too many people had died, and solidarity was no longer merely a buzzword. The quilt was unfolded. As I walked among...
...York City and Los Angeles and in January around the country, has been trumpeted with a publicity campaign so lavish and long winded that many people probably think the movie has already opened and they've already seen it. Evita is, to be sure, in many ways a landmark: the most ambitious musical Hollywood has turned out in years; the culmination of an almost 20-year effort to bring the Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice pop opera to the screen; the catalyst for a storm of political protest in the country where the real story took place; the inspiration...