Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sadder aspects of the Grenada invasion was the hostility of this country's highest brass toward the press. This differs from the workaday friction between the press and any Administration, or from the special problems the press Ronald in dealing with a White House skilled in staging the news to Ronald Reagan's advantage. These are tolerable tensions, probably good for everybody...
...good place to pick up a gallon of o.j. Boutiques are ripe for window-shopping, but what if you really need to buy clothes? Gentrification is usually pleasing to the eye, but less kind to the pocket. And as time wears on, even the slick interiors and brass railings lose a bit of their gleam. The process just becomes too predictable--the porcelain tile tables and ceiling fans follow the influx of young professionals with clockwork precision...
...idea to crash the party came from the loudmouthed comedian's boyfriend, Howard Rose, an architect and dues-paying Friar, and she began working on her disguise a month ago. "I thought they would have a sense of humor about it," says Diller. But the club's brass, which may reprimand Rose, found the stunt a drag in every way. Club Director Jean-Pierre Trebot vows to "increase security." How? Well, he concedes, "we're not about to frisk everybody...
...menus with salad bars and chicken sandwiches. But Sheley thinks D'Lites will be different because he designed everything with lightness in mind. His shops give an impression of upscale airiness, with their blond-wood exteriors and glass skylights. The interiors suggest a greenhouse, complete with hanging plants, brass fixtures and etched-glass partitions. Says Sheley: "I wanted to be the first chain to offer a full-range menu in a place that doesn't look plastic...
...real estate is breathtaking. Glowing Victorian brass fittings, red oak woodwork and frosted glass set off the Pavilion, a graceful three-level gallery of restaurants and shops in a vast sunlit atrium that rises 215 ft. and has a floor two-thirds the length of a football field. Visible through the distant glass roof, past floors of balconied corridors where 800 federal workers have offices, is a dramatic view: the 315-ft. clock tower that presides loftily over Pennsylvania Avenue. Developer Charles Evans Jr., whose firm also was part of the team that refurbished the nation's oldest covered...