Word: hiltonization
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...some very interesting indeed, the most striking thing to happen was agreement on a level below the art itself: that modernism, which had been the cultural bedrock of Europe and America for 100 years, was over, and in the course of becoming a period style. As Art Critic Hilton Kramer put it in a deservedly influential essay in 1972, we are at the end of "the Age of the Avant-Garde...
...VEGAS, Nev.--Five persons were killed and more than 70 injured in a fire at the I as Vegas Hilton late last night...
...husband's side as they visited all ten balls. At a few stops, Reagan spoke of the hostages-"prisoners of war," he purposefully called them-but generally he kept to an aw-shucks-so-glad-you're-here routine. Said he to guests at the Washington Hilton: "I've finally decided that I'm not going to wake up. It isn't a dream." The Reagans danced, at last, at their eighth stop, the party in the ornate Pension Office Building, to Moonlight Serenade, and again at the Smithsonian's American History Museum...
...space shuttle brings to mind a bloated, brick-covered DC-9, except that when "stacked" (as the space people say) on the launch pad with its enormous fuel tank and two crayon-shaped rocket boosters, it forms a surreal ensemble that could easily be passed off as the Intergalactic Hilton in a hokey sci-fi movie...
However small and skeptical, the black vote also could be a key factor in the coming election, and it was the object of ardent wooing last week by all four candidates. The courtship occurred most directly in the regal grand ballroom of the New York Hilton, site of the annual convention of the National Urban League, which for 70 years has helped blacks to get jobs, housing and education...