Word: conventioneers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kansas City on a Monday, after driving 26 hours straight from Cambridge. It was a blazing prairie day; the streets baked, and the heat compounded my fatigue. The Republican National Convention had started that morning, and the town was swarming with conventioneers. My friend and I parked our car, and drifted uptown to the Radisson Muehlbach Hotel, where President Ford was due to arrive at any minute. We couldn't see anything for the milling Ford Youth and police lines, so my friend suggested we get a beer in the bar of the hotel across the street and watch...
The Rules of the Game. Did we say seering social satire? Certainly the sting and class indictment in this story about an upper crust weekend at a country estate is undeniable. And yet Renoir also manages to pay tribute to loneliness, love and the more harmless foibles of servants and...
As was the tradition in private-eye melodramas, the enormously complicated plot is merely a convention permitting the hero to come into contact with large numbers of colorful characters, here including a very shifty informer and a bodyguard who thinks he's tough until he runs into Wells, who...
Once the cities get the funds, he added, they spend them on public works projects like convention centers or parking garages, rather than on programs directly targeted to help the poor.
Public Health Service's Center for Disease Control has had a bad press lately. As the Government's front-line fighters against epidemic disease, the CDC's dedicated scientists had to take much of the blame, justly or not, for the collapse of the nationwide swine flu...