Word: downtowner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After some time, three women from Wellesley College--strangers no less--crept into the room and sat on the floor listening. Perhaps they were amused by the sight--two college boys spending their Saturday night next door to a party, discussing the nuts and bolts of pulling votes in downtown Quincy...
...sharply pressed pair of flannel cricket trousers, white buckskin shoes, white moleskin hacking jacket with a red carnation in the lapel, silk shirt and purple tweed tie. In your summery stylish regalia, and really looking nice poise on the sixth floor room balcony of a goodish old fashioned downtown hotel. When everyone is suitably assembled to watch you jump off to break your head, commence peeing. If no one tries to rush the hell out of the way of your pissing all over them, you have reached...
...blaze of morning sunlight the buildings are white, elegant and French in downtown Algiers. Although the streets are named after Algerian martyrs, their design is French colonial. White stucco, palm trees and street cafes appear in regular sequence and converge at a large square or park. Their sharp angularity seems out of place in this hilly city decorated with Islamic arabesques...
...million and is happy it did; the occupancy rate has been an astounding 90%. Not surprisingly, Hyatt asked Portman to repeat his formula in a hotel near Chicago's O'Hare Airport, and it worked again. Sophisticated Chicagoans make the 45-min. trip from downtown to have a cocktail and stare. In 1971, however, Portman broke with Hyatt after a quarrel and joined forces with the Western International chain, a subsidiary of U.A.L. Inc. It now runs the new Portman hotel in Atlanta...
Lydia Abarca, 25, grew up only a few blocks away. At 13, she went downtown on a scholarship to the Harkness School of Ballet. Two years later she was told that she could not dance. When she showed up at a Mitchell audition, she recalls, "he grabbed me and told me to take my clothes off because he wanted to see my feet. I thought he was crazy." Another principal dancer, Virginia Johnson, 24, was being steered into modern dance until she learned about D.T.H. Is there any reason for such a waste of black classical talent...