Word: dame
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...great houses, notably Manhattan's Roxy, the Orpheums of Seattle and Portland, Ore., and the Paradise (lost) of Chicago. Many that still exist have become porn houses. Others were stripped and chopped into two, three or even four cinemas. Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, the grande dame of U.S. movie palaces, only narrowly survived last year. Nor do all those that remain cater to the arts. Chicago's old Century Theater metamorphosed into a multilevel shopping center. The old Loew's Valencia in Queens, N.Y., restored at a cost of $250,000, now houses...
...growing recession. Last month retail sales were down a sharp 1%. With its emphasis on easily deferrable big-ticket purchases like appliances, Sears could be hurt harder than most. All of Edward Brennan's company breeding and 24 years of training will be needed to help the Grande Dame of Retailing recover the attractiveness of her youth...
...families gathered around the bulletin board where the times were posted (almost 20 runners from Cambridge finished the race in less than three-and-a-half hours); the police had to escort away pedestrians who simply refused to move. One group of students roared in triumphant cheer the Notre Dame fight song. Families set up picnic lunches on the sidewalk outside Lord and Taylor to catch the sunlight. Other spectators waited along the finish line to cheer on the marathoners for more than three hours after Bill Rodgers, the winner, came...
Confronted with schools such as Stanford and Notre Dame which offer full athletic scholarships, athletes show in creasing reluctance to come to Cambridge...
DIED. Virginia Murray Bacon, 88, widow of New York Republican Congressman Robert Low Bacon (who died in 1938), ebullient champion of the arts and historical preservation in the nation's capital, and grande dame of the city's G.O.P. elite for half a century; in Washington...