Word: dinners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today's festivities include a reception, a speaker from the Spanish Literature Department, the dance troupe Ballete Folklorico Atzlan, a traditional Mexican dinner, a Mariachi band, the keynote speaker on the future of Mexican-Americans in the U.S, and a dance. All activities are open to the public except for the dinner, Alexander said...
During each successful contest, Ward crafts a picture of the owner that makes her an extreme caricature of the capitalist class. Sitting in her luxury box seat, flanked by her lackey general manager and two servants clad in white dinner jackets with black bow-ties, she frets over the success of her ball club and sips a cool drink. She exudes the air of either a colonial plantation owner, who cannot squeeze any more productivity out of the slaves who are cultivating the fields, or a Roman emperor who condescendingly passes judgment over her subjects at a gladiator's match...
...window of this religious-goods mart, wooden Indians rub elbows with statues of the Madonna and an ebony St. Martin of Tours; inside, Holy Seven Spiritual Good Luck Bath Oil and the ever reliable Gamblers Drops are for sale. Next door is a nice place for early dinner: Copeland's, which speaks in tasteful tones (carnations on each table, a harpist on weekends) and cooks in Southern and Cajun accents. "Chitterlings and champagne, m'sieur...
...reasoned report with such compassion for homosexuals, whom he had once called antifamily. Phyllis Schlafly, who said the report sounded as if it had been edited by a gay-rights group, lashed out against Koop and led a campaign against him. Her efforts culminated in the boycott of a dinner in honor of Koop and persuaded two presidential candidates, Representative Jack Kemp and Senator Robert Dole, to pull out as sponsors...
...worth is dramatically changed. In Florida a man bills his ophthalmologist $90 for keeping him waiting an hour. In California a woman hires somebody to do her shopping for her -- out of a catalog. Twenty bucks pays someone to pick up the dry cleaning, $250 to cater dinner for four, $1,500 will buy a fax machine for the car. "Time," concludes pollster Louis Harris, who has charted America's loss of it, "may have become the most precious commodity in the land...