Word: guests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...integrates salsa, soul and tango sounds. Sermon styles differ: African Americans expect call and response from the pews and services that last twice as long as a typical white service. Roosevelt Clossum, minister of the African-American congregation at Mount Olive, says that when he went to give a guest sermon before the whites at Kingshighway, he was warned that if he preached more than an hour, a trapdoor would open under...
...Hollywood hardly knows what to do with its human stars. Sandra Bullock became one as the resourceful bus driver of Speed, yet in the sequel she can only squeal, hide and get kidnapped, while no-voltage Jason Patric attends to all the heavy heroics. In Batman & Robin the guest villains are Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze. Thurman has sexy fun with her villainous eco-freak, but Arnold is encased in an icy truss of a costume that obscures his rippling charisma. Memo to the Batman team: next time you pay a star $25 million...
...political advantages were obvious by the time the plant opened in September 1993, early in the Clinton Administration. Thanks to Knight, one of the guest speakers there was Grumbly, whose trip the lobbyist had arranged. Grumbly suggested that the firm could receive as much as $200 million in federal work, which sent the stock soaring. Gore, who wrote a best-selling book on the environment, joined the cheerleading in April 1995. He traveled to the Fall River, Mass., plant to deliver an Earth Day speech in which he plugged Knight's client as a "shining example of American ingenuity...
...exhibit does not simply provide visitors a chance to look at one big, beautiful book. "There's more to Audubon than just the bird pictures," says Smithsonian Institution Libraries guest curator Helena Wright. The items she and her staff have assembled--many gathered from the Smithsonian's own holdings--certainly bear her out. An original copy of Audubon's less famous work on mammals, Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America (1845-48), demonstrates his astonishing range in art and natural science. Both are fields he mastered, as far as anyone can tell, by teaching himself...
...general, less pricey hotels raise their rates less. According to the Unofficial Guide, the Newbury Guest House in Boston raises its rates by $20 while the Susse Chalet Motor Lodge, located near Cambridge's Alewife T-stop, increases its rates by only $15 per night...