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...Telco) announced upscale Mountain Village: 92 acres of residences, hotels, a golf course and new intermediate runs, necessary to attract family-oriented baby boomers. The whole operation was to be built six miles and a mountainside away from Telluride, linked to the town by a high- speed European-style gondola...
...disinterested gaze, combined with sip from sherry glass and lengthy stare at shoelaces) "Yes." (raised eyebrows, implication of deep passions long ago; brutal, passionate love, spurned by a lover ago; brutal, passionate love, spurned by a lover who came out of the closet on a Venetian gondola and shtupped his wife in their bridal suite...
Hart's campaign last week was a string of photo opportunities. He tooled around San Diego harbor in an experimental boat and climbed into the gondola of a bright yellow-and-blue hot-air balloon at a balloon fiesta in Albuquerque (gusty winds kept the craft from getting off the ground). In speeches Hart presents himself as the thoughtful leader discussing issues of the future, delivering detailed proposals on voting procedures in Grand Junction, Colo., on women's rights in Albuquerque, on nuclear-arms control in Santa Barbara...
...rooms 10% to 25%.) A 60-acre parking lot provides space for 7,500 cars and can handle about 20,000 bus passengers daily. From another huge parking lot, directly across the river in Algiers, visitors can swoop into the fair in a new 2,200-ft., $12.5 million gondola (gon-doh-la to natives). The ride in the six-person cars is worth it on its own for the spectacular views of the Mississippi, Lake Pontchartrain and the city 350 ft. below...
...fair will make a welcome permanent mark on New Orleans. Taking over a swath of the levee that had been cut off by wharves and railyards, the big show will leave behind the riverfront promenade, the gondola system and the Great Hall, which will become a convention center. It has also hastened the refurbishing of more than two dozen 19th and early 20th century warehouses, whose harmonious blend of textures and styles-Greek revival, Italianate and postmodern-is unmatched in any other U.S. city. These will be converted into badly needed offices, apartments and stores. The future star...