Word: boulevards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many of our local retailers, who peddle wares in and around Harvard Square, have also set up shop on Newbury Street, Boston's elite shopping boulevard...
...shocked when the estate was handed to me, because there was very little money available. We really didn't have anything," said Priscilla during an interview in her modest office on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, where she has run Elvis' estate since 1979, when not making a name for herself as an actress in prime-time soap operas or Naked Gun movies. Then again, perhaps she should not have been so shocked at the estate's relative puniness. "Elvis," she notes with an ex-wife's hard-won lucidity, "did not plan for the future. When he needed money...
...other night, a New York resident named Jean Vallely, who had just returned from California, told me that her windshield had been streaked up by a squeegee guy on San Vicente Boulevard in Brentwood, Calif.--the first confirmed squeegee-guy sighting I've heard of since this whole thing started. It raises the possibility that the squeegee guys, having heard of the O.J. case, are moving out to Brentwood on the theory that a jurisdiction that lets someone get away with murder couldn't be hard on people who wash windshields with filthy rags...
...student of the crypto-eccentric school of modern acting, or, as he says, "I sometimes use broad strokes." He is being modest; at times his brush could paint Hollywood Boulevard in one swath. Known for his fierce preparation for a role, he lived in a car while playing the punk in Valley Girl, wore bandages off the set as a blind Vietnam vet in Birdy, videotaped himself drunk for Leaving Las Vegas. Some of his very early performances were mannerist bordering on the grotesque, and he was almost fired from Peggy Sue Got Married, Raising Arizona and Moonstruck...
...gave me discipline. For the first time, I experienced the thrill of winning a championship. Then I made the transition to a team sport--softball. By the summer of 1954, when I was 13, the softball team began to shape my sense of self. I played with the West Boulevard Annie Oakleys in the Pigtail League in Cleveland, Ohio. The positive attitude of the coaches--one of whom was George Steinbrenner, then a graduate student--made all the difference: they decided we could win a championship. They also taught us there were ways to play the game so we could...