Word: attractions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...warfare on Hollywood Boulevard began about nine months ago when the cruisers arrived. Trolling around in cars is the all-American pastime, but California cruisers have transformed it into an elaborate ritual. Not just any car will do. The idea is to attract attention. Stereos, painted names and modified engines are routine. A compact pickup with giant wheels is better. A truly "clean ride" is a lowrider: a 1950s vintage General Motors car, lavishly decorated and fitted with a system of hydraulic lifts that allows it to be impressively raised or lowered...
Kriangsak enters Parliament with a powerful political base. He appointed 150 of the Senate's 225 members while Premier, and he hopes to attract enough support in the lower house to make his National Democrat Party the leader of the opposition. If that happens, Prem's regime will confront a formidable foe. But Kriangsak coyly denies any plan to topple the government. Says he: "I'm nobody's enemy...
...growth of commercial air transport has literally changed the landscape of U.S. business. To spur their local economies and attract new corporations, cities have invested many billions of dollars in the construction and expansion of airports and terminal facilities. These have become beacons for business in their own right, complete with hotels, shops and restaurants. One of the newest in the nation is Atlanta's eleven-month-old Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport, a sprawling, twin-terminal complex designed to eliminate the congestion that had existed at the city's old one, which was already the second busiest...
Runkle also dated a couple of her clients. Her most serious friendship apparently had been with Johnny ("Fat Man") Campo, Pleasant Colony's trainer since March. They were vivid proof that opposites attract. Campo, 43, is a bombastic, street-wise man who rose to prominence by turning cheap horses into winners. Runkle was a slight, shy, sweetly bookish young woman given to quoting Her mann Hesse and Antoine de Saint-Exup...
...years, people have brought their jokes and guitars to this part of Cambridge, making a tin can or a hat available for generous pedestrians. Over the past several months, however, the Square has become nothing short of a free-form carnival; performers attract crowds anywhere they can find a little open space, on weekday as well as weekend evenings...