Word: alleys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bartender in Stella, he is just about the only credible touch in a film reeking of Hollywood sham. In Roseanne Goodman has created a full-blooded portrait of a working-class lug, equally credible whether giving heartfelt advice to a teenage daughter or doing boisterous pirouettes in a bowling alley. He seems to mesh perfectly with Barr; Goodman can be deferential even while he is stealing the show...
Even though the majority of songs that Holiday sang throughout her three-decade career were commercial, Tin Pan Alley tunes ("What A Little Moonlight Can Do", "Them There Eyes", "I Cover The Waterfront"). she sang them in such an uncompromising, heartfelt style that she never gained the national popularity of more "acceptable" singers like Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan...
...bases try to make Antarctic life as enjoyable as possible. At McMurdo Station, the continent's largest town, the 1,100 or more summer residents can hang out at the four Navy bars, use a two-lane bowling alley, take aerobics classes at the gym, and borrow videotapes from a library. Recent social events included a chili-cooking contest and an amateur comedy night. Even at the South Pole Station, home to no more than 90 hardy workers, there is an exercise room, a sauna, a poolroom and a library equipped with wide- screen...