Word: entertainment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vellucci probably won't be the only one spending money. When Gaeta Mayor Quirino Lecesse visited Cambridge in September, he told the city council that his town had allotted 10 million lira (about $6500) to entertain Cambridge officials travelling to Italy...
...simply by a substantive vision of what he wanted Jack Kennedy to become. His rhetoric was full of verbs of motion and change, but his idea of what America ought to be-other than wanting it to be an excellent place in all ways, not a bad vision to entertain-was often murky, crisscrossed by his own ambivalent impulses. When Kennedy came to the White House, his main previous administrative experience was running a PT boat. He had a great deal to learn...
...Scenes of Clerical Life. Lewes coaxed novel after novel out of Eliot, while buttressing her self-esteem and shielding her from bad reviews. Even the ostracism she suffered gave her time to work. As Rose points out, the author of Middlemarch did not have to give dinner parties or entertain weekend guests. Ellot's was a fate that women, especially those who write, may envy...
Finally Los Angeles woke up to what was happening. Movie stars offered to entertain, merchants lined the streets with foreign flags, and, most important, tickets suddenly began to sell. Years later, visitors remembered the extraordinary atmosphere of amity that pervaded the air during the 16 days of the Games of the X Olympiad. At the end of the first day's events, an announcer asked spectators to remain seated so there would be no traffic to slow the athletes on their way back to the village. The great throng joined in singing a chorus of songs until the contestants...
This consistent packaging offers reliable service. Commented Chairman Allen H. Neuharth recently. "We are not seeking influence--in the normal media use of that term. We want to inform, we want to entertain, and we want to help bring about an understanding and a unity among people in this country...I make a distinction between that and the more traditional meaning of the words 'influence' or 'power...