Word: class
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...point much in dispute in the British travel industry. The existence of the Reeves is an indication of how rankled some travelers are by the standards of other London hotels. The Businesswoman's Travel Club, founded two years ago to "provide a voice for women who receive second-class service when they travel," conducted a survey earlier this year that yielded a flood of complaints about life on the road. Many women are tired of ironing skirts with a trouser press or drying long hair on a space heater. Says Kirsty Maxey, 25, a marketing executive: "It's about time...
When I first heard Leland speak in 1984 to a student group, nothing came across so much as that he cared. He really cared. In the middle of the Reagan Revolution, he tried to convey to a bunch of upper-middle class kids the importance of working for others, those who were less fortunate than we were...
...bought into a spree of bad luck. The company, which markets consumer goods on its phone-in TV shows, has made a series of ill-advised acquisitions; its stock price has slipped from a 1987 high of $47 a share to less than $4; and it faces a class-action stockholder lawsuit. Last week came more bad news. A jury in Pinellas County ordered HSN to pay GTE $100 million in libel damages. That is the largest libel award in history...
Screen dreams are strangest and strongest when they hit close to home. In Terence Davies' searing memoir of his working-class family in Liverpool 30 and 40 years ago, mystery resides in the vision of his mother, magically poised on the hall sill, washing the outside windows ("Don't fall, Mom. Please don't fall"). Laughter erupts from three colleens parodying a Nat King Cole hit ("They tried to sell us egg foo yung"). The recollected terror of a vicious father can be tempered by his early death. The daughter who vowed, "If I ever...
...reportedly wants to attend Harvard, was in Byerly Hall this week to take placement tests and the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement. I hope he passed the QRR. Can you see the revolutionary who turned a nation of a billion people on its ear having to take an introductory statistics class because he scored only...