Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...airport chapel), but a lot of couples have slept there. The 268-room Orly Hilton and the 56-room Air Hótel are equally popular with the honeymoon crowd and the cinq-à-sept set who want to avoid being spotted by relatives or friends in downtown hótels de passé. Such liaisons have already become part of the Gallic tradition; in Une Femme Mariée, Jean-Luc Godard's 1964 film, one love scene is filmed at an Orly hotel. For newlyweds, the nearby Orly Hilton provides free champagne; for transients...
...group divided into six groups to deal with specific problems such as the extension's impact on the downtown business area, the response of Quincy residents to the extension, and the Federal and state funds available for redevelopment...
Bennett revealed the decision yesterday in a meeting in downtown Boston where he and James Shattuck, assistant treasurer of the College, discussed Harvard's investment policy with Finfer and representatives of YPSL, Harvard Ecology Action Coalition, and the Moratorium Committee...
...minuscule cast is trapped in Frank Gilroy's anemic narrative of a boozy loser and his new-found chick. Pianist Joe Grady (Beatty) plays gigs at a downtown bar, trying to raise the fare to New York and a fresh start. Fran (Taylor) is a chorine waiting for her paramour to obtain a divorce and altar her situation. In a matter of moments, Fran and Joe become casual lovers playing for time-and losing. He keeps dicing away his savings; Mr. Right fails to come to her rescue on schedule. While they run in place, Gilroy furnishes them with...
Instilled by our education with a reverence for content before form, we tend to confront even the most visual, affective arts with an analytic mentality. For months after Picasso's enigmatic fifty-foot sculpture was uncovered in a downtown Chicago plaza, discussion centered frantically on whether it was a woman, a dog, or a bird. Newspapers covered the controversy greedily and people who finally felt they had identified it were at last able to react. When Dylan Thomas spoke at MIT in 1953, his lyrically eccentric speech was met with silence by an audience of what must have been tightlipped...