Word: mecca
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There's no need to go to mysterious far-off lands this Spring Break in order to bond with strangers, test the limits of your tolerance, and find a core of inner strength. A short ride on the red line will bring you to that mecca of self-discovery known as Filene's Basement...
...slave religion -- although many, many more continue to practice it today -- and were looking for ethnic heritage and pride. Although the early days of the Nation of Islam are murky, the official version is that Wallace D. Fard founded it in Detroit in 1930, allegedly upon arrival from Mecca. He disappeared a few years later and was replaced by Elijah Poole, renamed Elijah Muhammad, who reigned until 1975 over a black nationalist ! business and religious empire. Among its most celebrated converts was boxer Cassius Clay, later Muhammad...
Located in the basement of the Carpenter Center HFA is a resource for films students, a mecca for cinemagroupies, and, in the eyes of many ordinary movie-goers, an outright peculiarity. Films screened at HFA this month include "Sensations: A Holy Orgasm of Shadow-Play," "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer," Sex and Zen," and "Backyard Movie," the later juxtaposing "old home movies" with "cheeky footage of naked men on trampolines and frolicking dogs," according to HFA's monthly bulletin...
Boston politicians are already feeling pressure from business leaders to make Boston a mecca for conventions...
...along, but Arthur seems to co-exist with himself quite happily. He is famous in our halls for the very good headlines he comes up with for covers and page layouts and the very bad puns ("The Vegas Notion" for our recent cover on the Nevada gambling mecca) that he sticks in as dummy copy...