Word: hiltonization
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...wrote the Chip Hilton books...
...train chugs smoothly through the last stretch of the yards and down into the tunnel. The last view through the iron bridges overhead is of the fish-eye Loop: the 106-story John Hancock building, the Hilton and the Drake, skyscrapers like you don't see in Milwaukee, towering over what always seemed a gaudy wild circus with simple folk and winos and businessmen and dragged-out, bundle-laden suburban housewives all lined up along the elevated platform for the "noon rush hour." And still one more thing. The sheer face of the aquamarine federal court building mirroring the progress...
...state department car sped Eban to a fundraising dinner at the Statler Hilton, he said "It is more difficult to project Israeli policy to younger people" because they were not alive during the World War II holocaust and subsequent establishment of the State of Israel...
...York Times's Hilton Kramer dismisses Guston's paintings as a mere exercise in radical chic. Rather, they are Guston's authentic response to a personal sense of crisis. The trouble is that painting has become a clumsy way of reporting a society as turbulent and racked as this. Its clashes cannot be accounted for in single, painted images-as Goya could report the Madrid insurrection in Third of May, or Delacroix symbolize the 1830 revolution with Liberty Leading the People over the barricades of a Paris street. The task has been assumed, and done better...
...never gave up the suburban villa that he had occupied as an army lieutenant colonel, though he had it considerably enlarged. Nor did he lose the ordinary man's sense of surprise at sumptuous living. Once, while visiting Saudi Arabian royalty at the best suite in the Nile Hilton, Egypt's dictator whispered, wide-eyed, to an aide: "How much does this cost...