Word: barred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rumanian lovely at a hotel bar in Bucharest sidled suggestively over to the American tourist. Instead of the usual offer of sexual delights, she cooed a surprising request: "Darling, you buy me a carton of Kents...
...last year--is an idea whose time has passed. Eighteen-year-olds are considered old enough to vote and fight abroad. It is incongruous to us that while, on the one hand, they are expected to be on military call, they are not able to walk into a bar and have a drink...
...choices to the accompaniment of comic gallops by the baffled world press up and down the narrow streets to interview job hopefuls, then on to the nearest motels in Americus (ten miles away) for sparse rest and food. The food came, famously, from the now legendary Faye's Bar-B-Q Villa-a good steak served in the Formica rooms of a "double-wide mobile home" parked in a mud lot behind a filling station near some rotting tourist cabins...
...changed. From the mobbed television scenes of presidential trips back, I anticipate the worst. And the last few miles of the drive are ominous (you fly to Albany, drive 40 miles north). My favorite American road sign is gone now -the darkly mysterious "Dot's Topless Oyster Bar"-but a mange of new signs has broken out, for gift shops, campgrounds, ice-cold Billy beer (all the remains of that sunken venture have drifted hither). Just beyond the agricultural experiment station, a new information center sits by a freshly dug pond with the regulation absurd Old Faithful-type fountain...
Beyond uplifting urban renewal, Detroit offered the Republicans 17,400 seats in Cobo Hall, which is just three blocks from Ren Cen and its towering Plaza Hotel, with a revolving rooftop bar and a 240-seat nightclub. The hotel will serve as the party's convention headquarters. City officials assured Republicans that more than 16,000 hotel beds will be available, although only some 3,000 will be in downtown Detroit. Many will be across the river in Windsor, Ontario, and others 40 miles away in Ann Arbor and even in dormitories at the University of Michigan...