Word: lures
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even more startling touches went into another office building a few blocks away. To enter it-there are no doors -people must pass bright new boutiques, a gigantic fishing lure, and the world's biggest digital clock (50 ft. high), and then they must walk through a corrugated steel "tunnel...
...though, had more than his fair share of abuse by unscrupulous promoters in recent years. Being the unassuming (and somewhat thickheaded) bear that he is, he has not protested when snatched up by entrepreneurs to be their moneymaking lure. Sears salesmen palm off bogus Poohs on cups, cereal bowls and children's clothes. In his Pooh Perplex, Frederick C. Crewes uses Winnie as a straw bear to be analyzed in every way imaginable in a parody of literary criticism. Walt Disney latched onto the Pooh image in an hour-long cartoon, but substituted Hollywood caricatures for Shepard's illustrations...
...surprisingly, tennis has become a popular lure in new housing developments. "For every potential customer who talked about golf we found three who wanted to talk tennis," said Jack Gaines, developer of a 9,000-unit condominium subdivision called Inverrary on the outskirts of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He put in 20 courts. There will be 48 outdoor and two indoor courts and 106 plush town houses at Lakeway World of Tennis, now abuilding near Austin, Texas. When not actually playing, Lakeway residents can watch closed-circuit television broadcasts of instructional films and professional matches. Or swim in a huge pool...
...monkeys proved such a tourist attraction that in the next decade some 30 other Japanese cities opened similar parks. There have always been a certain number of macaque monkeys hiding in the forests of Japan, but those forests are steadily being cut down, and it proved easy to lure the monkeys into parks by establishing feeding stations close to city outskirts. As the animals took to their new habitats they also became bolder-and they kept multiplying. Now there are some 50,000 of them, and they have become a national nuisance...
Buying the traditional wristwatch for June graduates was once a relatively simple chore calling for little more than a choice of styles and prices. No longer. Whole new types of watches have hit the $3-billion-a-year world market in the frenzied competition to lure buyers. Some of the new models are called "automatic," meaning selfwinding; others are battery-powered and are variously called "electronic," "solid state" and "quartz crystal." Still another timekeeping development is about to reach the jewelry store. Early next year Longines will begin selling a "liquid crystal digital" (LCD) watch that is battery-powered...