Word: booth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CATHY BOOTH, TIME's Los Angeles bureau chief, has enjoyed such genial assignments as traveling to Australia to profile Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. This week, however, she shifts gears considerably to offer an affecting first-person account on the agonizing challenges of caring for an elderly parent. "It was very tough to write this story," says Booth of her contribution to our package on how best to tend to the older generation, which is growing dramatically. "I have to admit that at first I wasn't sure it was something I wanted to write, but I've been amazed...
...sitting in a booth at El Torito. I am nursing a margarita, Dad's got a bottle of beer, and the Mexican food will arrive soon. This has become a ritual for us, eating out three times a week, since we sold Dad's house in Texas and moved him to California a year ago at age 83. "Kick 'em!" he says, and we clink our glasses and connect--more than we ever connected before. Since Mom died more than two years ago, we hug and kiss--things we never did when I was growing...
...around? Give the earlier gasbags their due: annoying as they were, the pontificating pols at least stuck to the traditional democratic format. They talked; we listened. They presented themselves and their ideas, such as they were, and then let the voters choose--in the blessed silence of the voting booth. The arrangement seemed to work rather well, and allowed for such democratic necessities as leadership, principle and the disinterested formulation of ideas...
...Reported by Cathy Booth and Jeffrey Ressner/Los Angeles and Georgia Harbison/New York
After one year in the Square, discount theater ticket seller BosTix has vacated its Holyoke Center home and been replaced by a new Office for the Arts at Harvard and Radcliffe ticket booth...