Word: clubbings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...framed Playboy magazine covers will come down, the mauve walls will surely be repainted, and the scanty outfits and cottontails donned by twelve Bunnies will be packed away for good. On July 31 the last Playboy Club in the U.S. will close its doors. Officials at the Hilton Inn in Lansing, Mich., which houses the hutch, have announced they will dismantle the operation that once employed 45 Bunnies and on one Valentine's Day attracted a crowd of 200 to watch a performance by another anachronism, Tiny Tim. It was the last of five franchises that sprang up in Midwestern...
...plummeted to $5.2 million. Bally, which owns four gambling casinos in Nevada and New Jersey, will keep making slot machines and video lottery games, which earned $182 million last year. In the Chicago plant used to make the arcade games, Bally will produce weight-lifting machines and other health-club equipment for Life Fitness, a subsidiary...
...silver Jaguar and has started plans to build a shopping center. The reasons for his rapid rise: long hours of work, plenty of thrift and $4,800 in start-up capital from an unconventional source. Like thousands of other immigrants, the budding entrepreneur tapped an ethnic loan club for his seed money...
Lloyd Bentsen, campaigning with Dukakis in Texas last week, may have peaked as well. An oil-state millionaire remembered for his aborted $10,000 breakfast club, the Senate Finance Committee chairman sets off special-interest alarms in some quarters. His claim to being the only Democrat to have beaten George Bush in Texas is a little long in the tooth (it happened in 1970), and his campaign style on display last week was stolid and uninspiring...
...delighted to read that my favorite ball club, New York's own Mets, had won yesterday, defeating Chicago's Ursa Minor (sorry, Cubs) in a thrill-packed game. Once again, the winning run had been driven in by Darryl Strawberry. To those without mythic insight, Strawberry is just a tall, moody rightfielder who wallops long, high-arcing home runs. To me, though, Darryl seemed like the incarnation of . . . of . . . of Nyamia Ama, the all-powerful storm god of Senegal. Nyamia Ama is said to be somewhat remote and invisible. (Well, sometimes Strawberry doesn't like interviews either...