Word: americanas
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...book's Southern veneer, however, does not make it parochial. All the peculiar colloquial mannerisms reinforce an imaginative sense of Americana that makes no one a stranger to the world of this novel. Taylor's portrait of Memphis conveys the duality of life, desultory and crazy at alternate moments...
Using their fast-accumulating profits and borrowing against their growing assets, the Tisch brothers built up a chain of nine properties in 13 years. One prize: the opulent Americana hotel in Miami Beach. The hotel industry was booming, but not many operators were skillful managers. The Tisch brothers had a knack for keeping costs down and sales up. By 1960 their net worth was estimated at $65 million...
Only the best of Americana catches the attention of Mable Lomas, the 82- year-old proprietor of Anderson's Antiques, in Hopkinton, N.H. She is said to be the most respected dealer in the state, and her rules are stern: "No oak. No kitchen stuff. No collectibles." Mrs. Lomas has attended Withington's auctions almost since his first, in 1949, and like other dealers, she credits him with putting on the best show around and with being fair. He will not offer pieces with reserve, or minimum, prices, for instance, and does not accept phone-in bids. Does Withington guarantee...
...mace and Blue responds with his sword, a spectator cries out, "Your mutha wears chain mail!" Schlock: Gatorland Zoo with its Gator Jumparoo show, in which thousand-pound alligators lurch out of the water to snap their jaws around dead chickens suspended from a wire. For connoisseurs of arcane Americana, the Orlando area also offers an Alligatorland Safari Zoo (feed the animals with Purina Monkey Chow), a Reptile World Serpentarium ("Time your visit to be present during one of our three daily venom programs") and an Elvis Presley Museum, with displays of Elvis' high school yearbook (his major was shop...
...success by exploiting the patriotic values of hard work and clean living. First as the Olympic organizer who made the carrying of the torch a national happening and then as the visible mover and shaker in the apple-pie job of baseball commissioner, Ueberroth has touched a chord of Americana. It is a call coinciding with the rejuvenated patriotism that is the hallmark of the Reagan Revolution. Ueberroth seems to answer each new challenge with the proclamation that "America is back...