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...black colors of Alex's little kingdom. Moored in the harbor's greenish-brown water in the moth-balled U.S.S. Constellation, cousin of Boson's Constitution, and a favorites among the hordes of tourists who swarm through the twin glass-enclosed pavilions every day in the slimmer. They gawk at the awkward old boat and munch on Alex's chicken...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Serving Up the Sizzled Bird | 3/9/1982 | See Source »

Started in 1869, the Danbury State Fair had become an anachronism. It celebrated the farm at a time when farms hereabouts can be counted on two hands. But how people loved it: hundreds of thousands streamed through its gates every year to gawk at the livestock, ride the Ferris wheel and gorge on Italian submarine sandwiches and homemade pies. Finally, this stubborn outpost of rural sentiment could hold out no longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Connecticut: A Fair Goes Dark | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

Tired and dazed, the guests waited to be escorted to their smoke-blackened rooms to retrieve belongings. Passing motorists slowed on Flamingo Road to gawk and snap pictures. Inside, firemen sloshed through the gutted casino, trying to puzzle out how the blaze began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Sifting the Ashes in Las Vegas | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

...terms with love and trust. The movie's achievement is that it manages to be almost as effective as it is predictable. Its failure is in pretending to a naturalism it cannot maintain whenever movie actress and movie crew go slumming through the Big Apple and bystanders gawk into the lens, auditioning for stardom in some future Cassavetes film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Method Moll | 10/6/1980 | See Source »

...Noon Loeb Drama Center introductory meeting. A beautiful facility, the Loeb is worth a visit just to gawk at eclectic theater types...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: The Week Gets Weaker | 8/15/1980 | See Source »

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