Word: mainstays
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...city, and visitors are starting to come back. One big success is Newtown, long the city's theater district and now full of restaurants and other attractions. Access to the area is easier with the opening of the Nelson Mandela Bridge over a number of railway tracks. The mainstay of the district remains Market Theatre, which defied apartheid laws against mixed audiences long before democracy arrived. A police report in 1977 noted with distaste that "the White, Indian, Coloured and Bantu spectators watch the same performances and pay the same ticket price." These days, patrons pay anywhere from...
...Orleans mainstay Trashy Diva originally sold only vintage when it opened its doors in the French Quarter in 1996. The shop added its own two-piece collection--a "charm gown" and a silk-charmeuse flapper coat--in 1999, when it became more difficult to find used designs from the 1920s and '30s in good condition. Today, the store sells mostly its (expanded) Trashy Diva line, with pieces that look as if they might have been plucked from Daisy Buchanan's closet...
...Harvard Coop President Jeremiah P. Murphy ’73 also said that as Christmas gets closer and closer, retailers often see a shift in sales away from their mainstay products...
...avatar of high society and syndicated gardening columnist; in Old Westbury, N.Y. After a rebellious youthful turn as a show girl (and posing nude for Diego Rivera), she married the heir to a steel fortune in 1947 on Ernest Hemingway's Havana plantation and went on to become a mainstay of society columns and best-dressed lists for years...
Despite seeing limited action in the Crimson’s first few games, Dawson has become the mainstay of a Crimson offense weakened by injuries since his breakout 218-yard, four-TD performance against Lafayette...