Word: hiltonization
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...Dining Service operates five main dining halls plus Training House, used exclusively to serve dinner to athletes with afternoon practices. An added bonus is the nearby Penn Towers Hilton which allows Penn students $10 credit towards a meal in the hotel's fancy restaurant each semester...
Unofficial entrepreneurs have joined in the fun. Says Columbia University Sociologist Herbert Gans: "When there's a national festival, the hucksters are there. That's nothing new." Pens, place mats, puzzles, ashtrays, comic books and even thermometers will carry a constitutional motif. Hilton Hotels will place copies of the Constitution along with Gideon Bibles in each room. For Saturday-morning viewing, ABC Television has produced a series of Constitution Bicentennial Minutes, featuring Bugs Bunny and friends...
...history. It is the fountainhead for a freshet of Viet Nam exploration: We Can Keep You Forever, a BBC documentary about the mystery surrounding MIAs, will be aired Wednesday in 21 U.S. cities, and this spring will see two new movies set in Viet Nam, The Hanoi Hilton and Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket. In a movie season of Trekkies, Dundees and dentist-devouring houseplants, Oliver Stone has proved that a film can still roil the blood of the American body politic. Platoon the picture is now Platoon the phenomenon...
...CASTLE is the fairyland-like zenith of Disneyland. Since my Anaheim Hilton was in the Castle's shadow, I was using it as a cue to sanctuary...
...Mast), a weekly magazine published in Muslim West Beirut, ran a sensational article reporting that the U.S. had been sending spare parts and ammunition for jet fighters to Iran. The magazine further said that McFarlane and four companions had visited Tehran in early September, stayed at the Independence (formerly Hilton) Hotel and met with a variety of officials from the Iranian Foreign Ministry, parliament and army, who supposedly asked for more military equipment. Shortly after the visit, said Al Shiraa, the U.S. airlifted the arms to Iran in four C-130 cargo planes flying out of a base...