Word: characterizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The city has offered incentives to property owners, particularly along Mt. Auburn St. where the Fly Club is located, to preserve the historic character of their buildings. Several final clubs have received or requested tax reductions in exchange for such agreements.
These heritages mix together, though they often resist integration. The main character of the novel is Wittman Ah Sing, named in a warped way after poet Walt Whitman.
Then flag down an astonished cabbie ("White people!" his face says) and go back through Sugar Hill to 145th Street and Broadway. The character of this area, with its many Dominican immigrants, is raffish and polyglot. One store, the House of Talisman, is downright polytheistic. In the window of this...
For vodka sippers who like to think they can discern the differences among brands, the ad slogan for Smirnoff might be an attractive come-on: "So superior you can taste it." But the $10 million campaign has not gone down so smoothly with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms...
84 CHARLIE MOPIC. In the jungles of Viet Nam, a lost patrol finds enemies on both sides of combat. But the main character of Patrick Duncan's war movie is a documentary-film camera. Through its unblinking eye, a familiar horror story gains raw immediacy.