Word: auguste
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another time and place the conversation might have been considered typical banter among co-workers. As they prepared to take off from Dallas last August, the crew of a Delta Air Lines 727 joked about subjects ranging from Marilyn Quayle's looks ("She looks like she's from Texas. She's got that horseface") to Jesse Jackson's presidential campaign ("It's scary that someone like that could get as far as he did") to the power of the news media ("They're such vultures . . . they're too powerful") and the dating habits of flight attendants ("In case we crash...
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...even the most sweet-tempered soul, August is a test of patience and ingenuity, when office workers lunch by a fountain and hope for a strong wind. Shoppers browse through Chicago's Hammacher Schlemmer, lured by inflatable water shoes (pontoons for the feet), or a solar-powered ventilated golf cap, or, for sun worshipers who don't know any better, a sun-tracking beach chair that rotates 360 degrees for maximum exposure. For those who prefer refrigeration to recreation, swank, Dallas-based Neiman Marcus is prepared to cater a private picnic for customers in its fur vault, which is kept...
Above all, people need to be watered in August, and any entrepreneur with a splashy way to make waves should have no trouble staying afloat. Who, for example, could resist the Dive-In Movies at Raging Waters park in San Dimas, Calif.? There, up to 500 moviegoers can drift through feature films while floating in inner tubes around an 81-ft. by 193-ft. pool. High-powered fans underwater create gently rolling waves, which may not suffice to soothe the bathers as they watch, typically, Jaws, Creature from the Black Lagoon (this in 3-D) or Twenty Thousand Leagues Under...
Upon reaching the conclusion of Lisa Taggart's editorial ruminations about her recent experience in an elevator (August 8), I was astonished to find that she and her friends had completely missed first base in attempting to understand the Black man's refusal to push the elevator button...