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...Real Estate broke ground for a new hotel on the Gulf Station site at the corner of Harvard St. and Mass. Ave. Under plans developed by former Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence, the lot will house a 116-room inn managed by the Compri and Doubletree Hotel chain...
Anyone who ever slid a tray down a school cafeteria line remembers them well: the lunch ladies. They may be warmhearted, but their food is not always so hot. The Roy Rogers hamburger chain thought it would be a good idea to conjure up that memory with commercials featuring lunch ladies who dish up dismal casseroles to the tune of See You in September. The ads remind students to take advantage of their free time to snack on the company's fast food...
...campaign was highly effective, but the chain dropped the commercials last week because it offended a particular group: lunch ladies. The American School Food Service Association complained that the ads were unkind to cafeteria workers. Roy Rogers first ran the ads in 1988 but encountered the same reaction and shelved them. The campaign was revived this year under the company's new owner, Hardee's, but lunch ladies have grown no more willing to be taken lightly...
...Jake" Gittes, the chain-smoking private detective made famous by Jack Nicholson in the 1974 classic China-town, is walking the streets of Los Angeles again, but not without haunts. As he tells himself repeatedly in the new film, The Two Jakes, the past is something every person must confront at one time or another. It is a tortuous process, Gittes realizes, which requires treading a very thin line. "I don't want to live in the past," he says, "I just don't want to lose...
...measure of the practical value of such lessons is that university drama professors, who used to scorn theme-park and cruise work, now often guide students toward it. Many performers at the Six Flags park in Gurnee, one of seven in the chain, are funneled there from Millikin University in Decatur, Ill., and what they learned in class helps them survive. "If you don't use proper vocal technique and warm your body up," says Diane Zandstra, 22, a Millikin graduate in her second summer at Gurnee, "you'll hurt yourself...