Word: cornered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Krackerjacks, the hippy clothing emporium, is opening a new store closer to Harvard Square. The owner said yesterday that it will replace Williams clothing store on the corner of Mass. Avenue and Plympton Street in January...
...this. Her attitude: "What is there to be afraid of?" She soon found out. When the lights went up for the intermission, the audience discovered in its midst not only a daunting array of singers from the past but also the diva of divas, Callas, enthroned in a corner box. Immediately the entire house turned in claque-like obeisance to Callas; galvanized by her magnetic presence, they applauded and cheered as she blew kisses and tossed them the roses that lined the tier. Then she went backstage to greet her compatriot with "Brava! Brava! Brava!" But now she had created...
...Havana's tallest building, one of the few neon signs in the city reads: The Free Havana. At night, you can see the turquoise sign from all over the city. And during the day, if you stand on the corner of 23rd and N St. and look up closely, you can still see, behind the word "libre," the scars of what was there eight years ago--"Hilton...
...first notice him standing under a single fluorescent light in a back corner of the shadowy basement night club. His black raincoat is still buttoned to the collar, and a battered brown guitar case hangs at his side...
...that called his neighborhood "a model area for slum renewal," and read the whole thing to the Committee. He attacked the Model Cities program as "Another attempt by the Universities to act as God and take over these areas." "I'm just one voice, a poor guy from the corner drugstore," he said, "but I have to fight this thing...