Word: inn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crowds were beginning to gather at the Executive Inn Rivermont, near Owensboro, Ky. Dolly Parton, 37, had come to town. About an hour before showtime, a woman phoned Owensboro police to warn of possible danger from a man who "wants to harm her, a person who can't stand her." Parton's security consultant, Gavin DeBecker, 29, recommended that she cancel the concert and three others scheduled for last week. DeBecker believes he has a line on the man, a mental patient who has been arrested "a number of times." As for Parton, who carries a snub-nosed...
...receptionist was shut away from public view. Brown had kept the massive paneled doors wide open. Deukmejian placed comfortable stuffed couches in his outer office. Brown had craftily employed stiff wooden benches to both symbolize austerity and discourage lingering. Deukmejian, who has been camping out in a Holiday Inn, says he wants to move into the unoccupied Governor's mansion built by Ronald Reagan's former administration. Brown shunned the 25-room stucco house set on eleven green acres as too opulent. Brown's government tried to sell it, but rejected the few bids...
Newhart, featuring Bob, that drip-dry palladin of the beleaguered middle class, running an inn in Vermont with his wife (Mary Frann), could be in its sixth year instead of its sixth episode. Richard Crenna and Patty Duke Astin show up on It Takes Two (ABC, Thursdays, 9:30-10 p.m. E.S.T.) fighting the kind of lightly amusing skirmishes in the battle of the sexes, married division, on which the dust should long since have settled. A rich kid (Ricky Schroder) gives his dippy dad (Joel Higgins) lessons in modern maturity on Silver Spoons (NBC, Saturdays...
PRINCETON 17, DARTMOUTH 11--Only the prelim to the main event, in which Princeton's Tiger Inn takes on an all-star team from the Dartmouth fraternities in an 80-man free-for-all. Winner take nothing...
...life: "The author [Bech] in these thin times supported himself by appearing at colleges. There, he was hauled from the creative-writing class to the faculty cocktail party to the John D. Benefactor Memorial Auditorium and thence, baffled applause still ringing in his ears, back to the Holiday Inn." Did Updike, invited by the Franklin Library, once agree to sign 20,000 volumes of Rabbit Run on the island of St. Thomas? Bech is lured by Su-perbooks, a subsidiary of the Superoil Corp., to autograph 28,500 sheets, at $1.50 each (Updike was paid a bit more...