Word: florida
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young couple in sales management and owners of a large four-bedroom home in Jamison, Pa., sought help from Dana Noonan of Decorating Den. For $5,000, Noonan finished the dining room with a new rug, a lambrequin over the windows and matching chair cushions, designed a sunny "Florida" solarium adjacent to the newly outfitted family room, and dramatized the guest bathroom with mauve, black and white accents. The Scalas are happy with the result. Says Joan: "I'm saving money in that I count my time as valuable...
LAST MARCH I was in Kissimmee, Florida watching my beloved Boston Red Sox blow an early lead and lose a spring training game to the Houston Astros. Although I was upset by the way the Sox lost--on a late-inning home run hit off reliever Calvin Schiraldi--I left the stadium excited about the season ahead...
...South Florida is also alluring as a beachhead for Latin American culture, politics and business, some of it conducted conspicuously with drug money packed in suitcases. This, in turn, has attracted a large number of state and federal agents, whose aims and agendas do not always coincide. Such activities go far to explain the growing number of curious writers who have fattened their frequent-flyer accounts with regular trips in and out of Miami International Airport...
Allman, a Florida-born journalist who was educated at Harvard and Oxford, offers the livelier version of the city's emergence from alligator swamp to Casablanca, U.S.A. His candidate for founding mother is Julia Tuttle, the independent wife of a Cleveland industrialist who persuaded Henry Flagler to extend his Florida East Coast Railway to the shores of Biscayne Bay, where Tuttle had inherited land from her father. The area promised freedom from the occasional winter frosts that inconvenienced rich vacationers 70 miles north at Palm Beach...
Cultural divisions among Anglos and Latins have also prompted bumper-sticker humor. WILL THE LAST AMERICAN TO LEAVE SOUTH FLORIDA PLEASE BRING THE FLAG? is a popular example. Allman gets his kick when North meets South, as in the alliance of David Kennedy, Miami's former Anglo mayor, and Rosario Arguelles, an exiled Havana debutante who married Kennedy in 1984 and was elected to the city commission the following year...