Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although potential purchasers streamed through the open doors, Coop officials said that Sunday sales at the Coop would not be a regular event, despite the repeal of the ancient Massachusetts "Blue Laws," which until last month prohibited Sunday retail sales. With employees receiving time-and-a-half pay for Sunday hours, and no reliable information on Sunday profit returns yet available, officials remained skeptical about the benefits of the change...
...Japanese engineers and artisans who built the park nonetheless stamped it with their signatures. Main Street is spanned by a gigantic roof, a concession to Japan's rainy season. For a Western barn, carpenters used an ancient Oriental method for fitting wooden joints together precisely. Two shows are tailored to the locale: Meet the World uses film and animation in a revolving theater to give insights into 2,000 years of Japanese history, and The Eternal Sea, an 18-minute movie, whisks audiences past open-jawed sharks and over the ocean floor...
Awaiting the publication of Ancient Evenings, his 23rd book and the "big" novel he has been promising for years and writing for more than a decade, Mailer seems understandably edgy. He is remarkably fit for a man of 60, which is what he became last Jan. 31. The event was celebrated quietly. Mailer and Norris Church, his sixth wife, went out to a restaurant. A few nights later, Pat Kennedy Lawford held a sit-down dinner party for several dozen people in his honor. Such subdued celebration of this milestone seems uncharacteristic. "That was calculated," he says. "I didn...
That is slightly hyperbolic, but Mailer indisputably makes waves when he moves in public. And whatever he may say to the contrary, he does not shrink from attention. Shortly before the appearance of Ancient Evenings, he spends five days as a hard-working fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. The undergraduates who trail him through his meetings, classes, lectures and ten-hour daily schedules were not even born in 1960, when Mailer established his notoriety by stabbing his second wife Adele; they were pre-teens nine years later when he ran for mayor of New York City. They are tadpoles...
...agent; his extravagant personal life had produced skyrocketing bills for alimony and child support. He sold off parts of his Brooklyn Heights brownstone, gradually marooning himself on its spacious fourth floor. A house in Provincetown, Mass., was sold at an Internal Revenue Service auction. He interrupted his work on Ancient Evenings to write books for quick money. One paid an unexpected dividend: The Executioner's Song, his account of the life and death of Gary Gilmore, won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for fiction...