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American movies mostly cater to this amnesia. If their primary task is to help us escape our trials of the moment, one of their secondary goals is to ease the burdens of the past. These days, history in the movies is essentially set decoration, something shimmering and elegant to place behind the well- spoken characters of a Merchant-Ivory film once a year, a Martin Scorsese film once a lifetime. The past is almost never seen as a tragic force. Or as something that contains a certain few shattering, shaping occurrences with which each generation must come to terms anew...
Goldsmith also stressed the distinctiveness of the restaurant's atmosphere, which originally sought to "cater to the lifestyles" of former attorneys and co-founders Rick Rosenfield and Larry Flax...
...stores cater to the tastes of an ethnically diverse neighborhood. A 40 year resident said that the older groups, Italian and Irish, were once large but are now shrinking; St. Joseph's church, on the other hand, indicates the growing influence of another group--Portugese services are offered. There is also a "yuppie, progressive pocket," Masters says, "that stretches across these boundaries...
Chapel Street. If you're already on Chapel Street for dessert, don't miss the many specialty shops which cater to the University's students and faculty. With Macy's gone and the Chapel Square Mall over-run by "inner city youth," most of the retail action has moved closer to the University. The Gap and Laura Ashley are just two of the retail outlets flourishing thanks to Yale. The Atticus Book Store, at 1082 Chapel Street (next door to Yale's British Art Museum) caters to bibliophiles of every sort. Grab a cappuchino in the recently added and immensely...
...right, nobody is young anymore -- certainly not kids. And the speaker of Bat II's songs is a bit frayed by time. In I'd Do Anything for Love (but I Won't Do That), it's the woman whose long wish list needs to be satisfied ("Will you cater to every fantasy I got? Will you hose me down with holy water if I get too hot?") and the man who must oblige. He must also face mortality. In Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are, he is haunted by three pushy ghosts...