Word: aquarium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...galore, but you need not be a sailor to enjoy the maritime paradise. Mystic Seaport, the nation's largest maritime museum (and commonly mistaken name for the town) is a perfect introduction to the 18th and 19th century shipping port. If you prefer sealife to seaware, visit the neighboring aquarium. Or a slice of pizza from Mystic Pizza is always an option...
Jokey mayors used to be all the rage in American cities. I remember Mayor William Schaefer of Baltimore jumping into the seal pool of the National Aquarium to fulfill his promise of what he'd do if the building did not open on schedule. Mayor Schaefer was a character. Mayor Edward Koch of New York was also a character. He once said he wasn't interested in running for Governor because there weren't any decent Chinese restaurants in Albany--a perfect mayor-as-character joke that turned less funny when he decided to run for Governor. In those days...
Creekside, which opened in 1989, is a handsome place, its fieldstone-walled foyer graced by a big aquarium. Its brochure boasted of private patios and a recreation director who "understands the subtle limitations of age." It promised "all the comforts of home" plus "state-of-the-art nursing equipment" for its 120 residents...
...economy and exploit its moods. There are fortunes to be made, for instance, by recognizing the potential of fish as furniture. Fish have become a perfect pet for the 1990s, where no one's around much but everyone wants his house to be all the homier anyway. So aquarium sales are through the roof. That is good news at Petland, a Chillicothe-based company whose success is nurtured as much by the weaknesses of America's two-income economy as by its strengths. Thirty years ago, Ed Kunzelman was a Chillicothe schoolteacher who started a pet shop on Paint Street...
...death. It engrosses little and matters less. "As in musicals and porno films, it's the big numbers -- here the rampaging action scenes -- that carry a Chan movie," notes TIME's Richard Corliss. So see Jackie on killer stilts, Jackie jumping from a high ledge, Jackie battling in an aquarium stocked with great white (rubber) sharks. See, and marvel, as he fights off a dozen or so angry Chinese men; his only weapons are a card table, some folding chairs and a metal ladder that becomes his own personal jungle gym. "Director Stanley Tong doesn't have quite the camera...