Word: haring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...West Virginia hills, the Hare Krishnas build a palace...
...Hare Krishnas are known for their bald heads, saffron robes and their own showy style of Hinduism. Known, but not necessarily beloved. Since 1966, with beads, drums and clanging cymbals, they have chanted and boom-cha-boomed their way down the streets of American cities and harried hordes of airport travelers with pleas for donations. So importunate are they, in fact, that a federal district judge in Syracuse has just declared that some of their fund raisers "engaged in a widespread and systematic scheme of accosting, deceit, misrepresentation and fraud on the public...
...father may like to dress his women in brief bunny suits with cute cottontails, but that does not make Christie Hefner, 27, a hare less rabid on the subject of women's rights. Hefner, a vice president of dad's Playboy Enterprises, says she came to the convention from Chicago as an alternate Carter delegate "to lobby for the minority platform on abortion and try to make a difference on women's issues." That is exactly what she did, dawn to dusk and gavel to gavel, while many another delegate was hopping around town. "People...
Into a cast of major and minor sinners strides Richmond in the fifth act, as a model of saintly sanity (again inaccurate history on the playwright's part). From what he has to do in the role it is impossible to gauge the acting ability of Michael O'Hare, but he does possess a warm and beautiful voice. His main function is to fight Richard to the death. So we have Moriarty, Dartmouth '63, pitted against O'Hare, Harvard '74. After too brief a bit of swordplay, Harvard wins and will ascend the throne as Henry...
Among the most successful new regional carriers is Chicago's Midway Airlines, launched last November in the nearly abandoned Midway Airport. The line promoted its proximity to downtown Chicago (eight miles from the Loop, vs. 22 miles for competing O'Hare) with a pair of sexy, ruby red lips and the slogan "Kiss O'Hare Goodbye. Jet Midway Airlines." Many travelers did just that. In its first seven months. Midway flew 190,000 passengers and rang up $7.3 million in revenues...