Word: bistro
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Storyville, in scenic Kenmore Square, both feature bad ambience and good local and national acts. The Rat is preferable for its recently opened bar and bistro just above the subterranean club...
...recent past--the collegiate T-shirts and knapsacks. Some sport the fashion of their professional future--the smartly tailored suits and briefcases Rob Portman joins them, settles on the green swivel seat and arranges his materials--notebook, pens, and breakfast: croissant, and a Styrofoam cup of coffee, from the bistro-cum-cafeteria, Soupcon...
...makes her tops in the field. She eats out 40 times or more a month. She goes to extreme lengths not to be identified, in the belief that anonymity will help her make sure that she receives the same treatment as any other patron. After six years on the bistro beat, she finds anonymity hard to come by. Sheraton is a familiar face at all the bigger and more fashionable eating places in Manhattan; the attention lavished on her at such establishments supports her case for camouflage. She never makes reservations in her own name; she often pays the bill...
...wild colors, exciting at first, ace dizzying by movie's end. The geography never makes sense--houses on hills with no apparent connection to the downtown bistro-brothel district, or to the beach. A debauched French movie-within a-movie, apparently being Filmed in the middle of the main story, also lacks an identifiable time and place...
Many of this year's most expensive business destinations are obscure spots in the Third World. In Accra, Ghana, a three-mile taxi ride costs $10.92. A drink in a bistro in Kinshasa, Zaïre, is $6.05. The most expensive city in the world at present is Bridgetown, the capital of Barbados, where U.S. companies, including TRW, Intel and Playtex, operate manufacturing plants to take advantage of low wage rates. A hotel room with breakfast there is a stunning $155.36. The world's least expensive city this year, as last, is Peking. A capitalist looking...