Word: inns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Life is hectic on a package tour with potential Presidents The two dozen reporters who sat slumped in the lobby of the Ramada Inn in Keene, N.H., had been waiting for Walter Mondale for almost three hours when the announcement finally came that the bus was ready for boarding. They gathered their gear, slogged through ankle-deep slush, and were just settling into their seats when word filtered down the aisle: "He's going to answer something." No one knew what Mondale would be asked, or by whom, but they grabbed their notebooks and, grumbling and muttering, trudged back...
...Games and then went off to give his staff a dressing down described as "thunderous" on some unspecified subject. "I believe we are completely ready to host the Games," insists one official. Still it was true that there were a few minor shortcomings. Sarajevo's new Holiday Inn had been invaded by a tribe of rats with the instincts of Albanian terrorists, and they were giving ground only slowly before the plates of poisoned food left in the halls by the staff...
Ronald Reagan would have picked Lester Lanin and Dom Perignon. Jerry Brown might have insisted on box lunches in a Sacramento park. George Deukmejian celebrated his first year in office at a Holiday Inn serving steak, salad and below-the-Borscht Belt Comedian Shecky Greene. When it comes to suavity and symbolic gestures, the current Governor of California is no match for his two famous predecessors. But it hardly seemed to matter last week. Describing the budget-priced dinner as "a little bit offence mending and a little bit of entertainment," the Republican Governor welcomed 200 legislators with a confident...
Similar plans are working at Steamboat in Colorado and at Vermont's Woodstock Inn and Resort...
...Yuppie prefers Aruba, Fiji or some presumably undiscovered inn, "only to find the dining room packed with M.B.A.s ordering cassis sherbet for dessert." Favored movies include Annie Hall (in fact, anything by Woody Allen), Casablanca (because of the ceiling fans), An Unmarried Woman (excellent footage of SoHo lofts) and Chariots of Fire (crucial emphasis on athletics, competitiveness and expensive clothing...