Word: chestnut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Japanese city dwellers, used to even snazzier Vuitton and Panasonic pleasures, Nagano has the charm of a big city's drawling country cousin, an apple-cheeked, wood-burning relative still known to eat raw horsemeat and pond snails and crickets. In a chestnut-filled village just 30 min. from central Nagano, a ruddy-faced high school boy gets off his bike to walk a visitor to his destination. An old woman at a country bus station counts out change with an abacus. The driver of a Highland Express cab (working 24-hr. shifts) is a robust woman with a basket...
...medley selection from, we are assured in reports, his extensive LP collection. Indulgence and soundtrack worship reaches an unbelievable point when we are forced to watch Forster's bondsman go to a record store, browse among tapes, and finally buy, quite clearly, a Delfonics hit. The merchandisers of old chestnut love songs must be rejoicing with a future return more guaranteed than the suddenly fortunate surf bands who saw new sales with Pulp Fiction's skittering guitar soundtrack...
...raves from auto writers and customers alike for the EV1's elegant engineering, its spaceship smoothness, and its intoxicating acceleration--0 to 60 m.p.h. in 8.5 sec. "My customers are fascinated," says Michael Monti, who parks his car in front of his Tempe, Ariz., restaurant. Beverly Hills realtor Constance Chestnut drives clients around in her EV1 because "it's hot and sexy." Hawthorne Savings Bank attracted $1.5 million in deposits from customers after it advertised its newly installed electric-car chargers. EV1 drivers have even founded a club and a Website. "This is no martyr mobile for environmentalists," says club...
...BOSTON COLLEGE, 4-3, OT at Kelley Rink, Chestnut Hill Harvard...
...resident at 160 Chestnut St. reported that she had been receiving harassing phone calls from unknown persons who constantly said "hello" and then hung...