Word: aquarium
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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...
...recent months, Weld has visited New Bedford to announce grants for sewer rate relief, a major restoration of a high school, research projects for the city's ailing fishing industry and a feasibility study for a major urban aquarium...
...second source of Herrell's fame is its unique atmosphere. The classy, reserved exterior gives way to a far-out inside. Painted to look like the sea floor, Herrell's contains an old vault remodeled to resemble the inside of an aquarium. Visitors seeking the total Herrell's experience must eat in the vault, which can easily accommodate eight deserters but often seats many more...