Word: archness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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McDonald's has a new venue: the diner. After two years of planning, the fast- food giant has opened a one-of-a-kind outlet, the Golden Arch Cafe in Hartsville, Tenn., a small town northeast of Nashville. The 1950s-style restaurant, complete with jukebox, offers such unlikely McFare as lasagna, pork chops and Salisbury steak. The menu includes ordinary hamburgers, but no Big Macs or Chicken McNuggets. While patrons still queue to order their food at a take-away counter, the meal comes on ceramic plates, and is brought to the table by servers sporting bowling shirts...
...Bridges) who makes use of his booze and her boredom to lure her into a one- night stand during a transcontinental railroad trip. (Those were the days!) Owlish and pudgy, Bridges is right for his role, but pillow-soft McGovern is wrong for hers. And many of Raphael's arch lines -- "Stand by for a Fascist invasion," the reporter murmurs to herself just before sex -- sound like candidates for the New Yorker's old "Sayings We Doubt Ever Got Said" department...
...winter, Mary Cist clinched the school's first national championship of the year when she won the tie-breaking match in a 5-4 win over Yale. Cist also clinched the team's win over arch-rival Princeton. Senior Jen Holleran tacked on Harvard's second national championship when she captured individual honors as the best women's squash player in the country...
...Arch-rival and Ivy League champion Yale took top honors with a team score of 623. Hartford, with the support of the Crimson, took the silver, one stroke off the leader...
Kite flyby. More than 3,000 kites made by schoolchildren in Tours, France, will be joined together and flown, creating a colorful arch across the Cher River...