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...election night, many campaign workers will gather at Boston hotels to watch election returns on TV: Bush's supporters can attend "a victory party" at the Copley Plaza Hotel, while Clinton supporters will head for the Imperial Ballroom of the Park Plaza Hotel...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: The Final Push | 10/29/1992 | See Source »

...Chen '96 suffered head injuries in the incident, which took place in the ballroom of the Hyatt Regency. Emergency workers took Chen to University Health Services, where she was treated and released at about 3 a.m. Saturday...

Author: By Jerome J. Chou, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Student Hit by Bottle at Dance | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

Chen said the incident occurred just before lights were turned on in the dark, crowded ballroom...

Author: By Jerome J. Chou, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Student Hit by Bottle at Dance | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

...infatuation with Count Vronsky and the pathetic disillusionment that sends her to her grim fate. What is wrong could not be fixed by any amount of dressing up. Anna is an earnest, intermittently moving but never quite thrilling stage equivalent to PBSs Masterpiece Theater -- lovely gowns, precise elocution and ballroom dancing, with a stately pace, wayward comic intrusions and scant urgency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Big Epic Writ Small | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

...mosquito, it seems, is essentially a tiny winged speck of libido. Here's what typically happens: the males form a hovering globular swarm, ranging from a softball-size band of a dozen to a ballroom-size throng of millions. To any female that may be around, the male buzzing sound is like a neon sign in front of a singles bar. She makes a beeline -- all right, a mosquitoline -- straight into the swarm. Once she's inside, the sound of her wings, beating 250 to 500 times a second, becomes the mosquito equivalent of a flirty hair flip. The males...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Summer's Bloodsuckers | 8/10/1992 | See Source »

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