Word: gated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rolling Stones have taken the field for the first time since 1978, and if careful attention is paid to the hoopla, the gate, the crowd and the ticket sales, any one would believe they were the only game in town...
...building on the distant hill, with its gaping mouth, recalls the hell mouths in Bruegel (it is actually copied from the guardhouse gate at Auschwitz). The figures, lying dead or crawling about in unidentifiable uniforms, reek of anonymity...
After a similar poll at Oregon State University, Family Life Professor June Henton and Assistant Professor Rodney Gate estimated the number of violent lovers at about 25%. At sunny Arizona State, Sociology Associate Professor Mary Riege Laner found, in a study that may put to rest American illusions about carefree campus romance, that more than 60% of the nonmarried upper-class students had encountered "some kind of violence" while dating...
...South Carolina, Charleston's Sword Gate Inn, an 18th century house belonging to David and Suzanne Redd, rents five antique-filled bedrooms for $55 per night; they come with a sumptuous breakfast (including freshly squeezed orange juice, cinnamon apple casserole, homemade sausage balls and locally blended "Carolina coffee") and complimentary bicycles for seeing the sights. The Vendue Inn's 18 rooms are organized around an 18th century courtyard, where wine and cheese parties take place each day to the strains of chamber music...
Most B & B proprietors, even those who are full-time innkeepers, are not trying to make big money. Says Suzanne Redd of Charleston's Sword Gate Inn: "We're in it for the pleasure. We love to entertain." Marian Binkley, owner of San Francisco's Hermitage House, agrees: "It isn't a business, it's a hobby. It's like having ten sets of house guests every night. The B & B owner has got to want to mother the world...