Word: liner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...steamed across the Atlantic last week, the majestic white passenger liner evoked memories of such grand old ships as the Queen Mary and the Normandie. Yet this $200 million craft, built at a French shipyard during the past 21 months, is very much a space-age creation. Cantilevered from her single smokestack, 14 stories above the waterline, is a flying cocktail lounge. Inside the ship, an atrium five decks high forms a main lobby, complete with glass elevators and towering fountains. There is nothing modest about the new ship, from her name, Sovereign of the Seas, freshly painted in bright...
Cruising has developed a new identity and allure. The ocean liner, no longer just a vehicle for getting from one continent to another and eating well along the way, has evolved into a floating amusement park, health spa and classroom. The ships, and the trips, are increasingly designed to suit the young and the restless...
...ocean liner, no longer just a luxury conveyance, has evolved into a floating amusement park, health spa and classroom. Roughly 1.5 million North Americans took cruises in 1982; by 1987 that figure had doubled. -- Financial markets gyrate as anxieties over the economy rise. -- Suitors press $3 billion bids on a bankrupt drug company. -- Outlawing a three- wheeler...
Mikhail Gorbachev sat on Nancy Reagan's right. On her left was Richard Perle, former Pentagon hard-liner and Soviet nemesis. The President was flanked by Raisa Gorbachev and Jeane Kirkpatrick. And the State Dining Room was filled with the unlikeliest 125 people one could imagine supping together: Henry Kissinger and Meadowlark Lemon, great Globetrotters both; Claudette Colbert and Moscow's supreme propagandist, Alexander Yakovlev; Ted Graber, Nancy's interior designer, and Georgi Arbatov, the Kremlin's noted American expert; Joe DiMaggio and Pearl Bailey; David Rockefeller, Mary Lou Retton and Saul Bellow...
Piro, who was there when it all started, says it was an "amazing" phenomenon. "It was one of those right-time, right-place things. One day, somebody cracked a one-liner back at the movie. The next time, somebody tried to top it. Soon, people were dressing up as characters, and maybe getting up and acting a part or two. All these little things happened spontaneously and it grew. It really took...