Word: inns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Benjamin West, 37, whose Quaker father kept an inn outside Philadelphia, has by now achieved a great success abroad. In fact West transformed the whole art of historical painting in 1770 by insisting that he would paint the death of General Wolfe at Quebec in the costumes and landscape in which it actually occurred, thus overturning the tradition that no hero could ever die except in the robes of ancient Greece, preferably with a temple or two in the background. West was a co-founder with Sir Joshua Reynolds of the Royal Academy of the Arts, and in 1772 King...
Toots and the Maytals. Reggae got soul, and this is the best band in the Boston area this week. Sunday, in Lenox, Mass., 4 p.m. at the Music Inn...
...simulated parachute jump (Six Flags over Texas, Dallas). Attractive as many of them are, the parks are generally located a long way from anywhere, take at least a day to "do," and can cost a prince's purse for tickets, meals and a room at the inn. The Krofft brothers' answer: bring the theme park downtown and put a roof on it. Their World, built for $14 million (v. $300 million for Disney World), occupies eight stories inside Atlanta's new $70 million Omni International "mega-structure." It takes only three to four hours to savor, costs...
...Belle de Jour. The same obsessive themes appear--bizarre sexual fetishes, anti-clericalism, absurdly stiff social rituals--without being integrated into any larger perspective. Phantom of Liberty is even worse. When we are shown aunt-nephew incest side by side with sadomasochistic monks and nuns in a French country inn, or when we see an elaborate fantasy in which people at a formal dinner sit about publicly on toilets and retire to a dark stall to eat, these are simply contextless bits whose crudity is a far cry from, say, Bunuel's brilliant portrait of the country landlord who forced...
Flesh has the profile of the Indian on a nickel and a degree from the Wharton School of Finance. He is also the owner of a Fred Astaire Dance Studio, a Travel Inn, a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet, a Cinema I, a Cinema II, a Mr. Softee ice-cream stand and a Fotomat - "a Checkpoint Charlie, a Mandelbaum Gate thing, a booth in the open center of a shopping mall...