Word: beacons
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...birthday parties as well. On Halloween Sal, Ron and 2,600 Rockyites--some from as far away as Montreal, London, Sacramento, Winston-Salem, N.C., and the Bronx--made a pilgrimage to Manhattan's cavernous Beacon Theater for a tenth-anniversary bash. Sal presented sham Oscars to each of seven R.H.P.S. actors, who tried not to look as if they had wandered into a Star Dreck convention. The audience judged a costume contest: dozens of odd fellows dressed as their favorite Rocky characters. Everyone had a ball. Richard O'Brien, dressed for the occasion in a cunning black tube top with...
...torch has beckoned for nearly a century as a symbol of hope for people everywhere. But by the time it was taken down 17 months ago, as part of a $230 million restoration of Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty, the 4,800-lb. copper beacon had been badly damaged by the elements. Last week a new torch based on the original 1886 design by French Sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi was raised 305 ft. to its perch in Liberty's right hand, overlooking New York Harbor. Constructed by a team of artisans from Les Métalliers Champenois...
...squash and ROTC weren’t draining enough, Hendricks also teaches a spinning class at the Beacon Hill Athletic Club in Boston...
...store window. At its foot there's a slapdash cornucopia of consumer goods: radios, a record player, power tools. In the upper half of the frame, which reports a reflection in the window, we see a twilit slice of Main Street, U.S.A., where a trusty lamppost rises like a beacon and a church steeple makes its dogged case for the spiritual life. Now look deeply into the center of the image to find its tiny punch line. A single glowing word, CASHIER, beckons from roughly the point where the picture's diagonals converge, as if to suggest that a ringing...
...Nieman fellowships, which have been handed out annually since 1938, can have a great impact on the careers of the journalists who receive them. “It had a great effect on mine,†said Giles, who was promoted to City Editor at the Akron, Ohio Beacon Journal after completing his fellowship...