Word: huts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...familiar giant plastic waiter, stands in front of his restaurant in Jakarta. Pizza Hut is in Buenos Aires. And foreigners have it our way at nearly 2,000 McDonald's (pace Dwight). Stopping for a Big Mac in Singapore, says a young customer, is "like walking into a bit of America." Last October in Kenya's rugged Rift Valley at the foot of a remote volcano, nomadic Maasai gathered for a rare tribal ceremony. Young warriors' heads were shaved. An ox was ritually slaughtered. And at the edge of the encampment, a concessionaire sold Coke by the bottle...
...sitting on the porch of her thatched hut in a United Nations encampment two miles inside Thailand last week, when the shells began to come in. "I heard a long whistle in the sky--then boom!" she said later. Sad Rod was one of 59 Khmer Rouge refugees wounded, and her four-year-old daughter was among eleven people killed, in an unusually savage attack by Vietnamese forces inside Kampuchea...
There was a time, unremembered by most Americans, when Burger King and Pizza Hut and Dunkin' Donuts did not dominate the nation's highways and boulevards. ! The proliferation of chain restaurants (60,000 at last count) is a signal social fact of the past four decades, a transformation of the commercial landscape more swift and radical than any other in U.S. history. Strung out along main drags in every city, fast-food franchises become the strip, identically chaotic collages of glowing signs and prefab construction. The helter-skelter of the strip is the urban critic's most convenient cliche --cheap...
...over a cup of coffee." The descendants include Big Boy, Denny's and Sambo's. From 1950 to 1960, years of heedless American growth, cars multiplied and the great fast-food empires were born: McDonald's, Tastee Freez, Jack-in-the-Box, Burger King, Dunkin' Donuts, Mister Donut, Pizza Hut, Burger Chef. The architecture that resulted was a sort of Sunbelt peasant modernism, simple constructivist cartoons in steel and glass, designed to catch the attention at highway speeds. Usually, as Langdon says, it was a case of "form faking function." Cosmetic A-frames were slapped onto plain boxes; McDonald...
...with the help of her mother, a literary agent, sold a children's book called She Was Nice to Mice. At 14 she began acting lessons and a few years later moved on her own to Los Angeles. After a short time in the minors (McDonald's and Pizza Hut commercials) she landed a role in a daytime TV special. She is anything but a gaga post-teen now, though she is counted a member of the group of kinda talented, kinda famous young actors somewhat unfairly called the Brat Pack. She needs only a few credits for her bachelor...