Word: mecca
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...RECENT New York Times magazine article reported that Vienna, once the cultural mecca of Europe, had grown deathly dull. The reason, it added, is that there aren't many Jews in Austria anymore. The writer noted that anti-semitism persists, nevertheless...
...charged him with impersonating a padre. Not until nightfall did police finally absolve Novello and two Attenzione freelancers of their sin and turn them loose. Shrugs Novello: "I hope they have a better sense of humor in Saudi Arabia, where I plan to pose in the Great Mosque at Mecca...
...film offers a catalogue of detailed horrors--I'm surprised the city's Board of Tourism didn't find some way to block its distribution. A pair of young people, Robert Joy as Joe and Hollis McLaren as the pregnant Chrissie, make their way down the highway towards this mecca of evil at the film's beginning, and you figure they are innocents who will be ground up by the Big City's hustlers and dealers. It turns out, though, that Joe is trying to sell a pound of cocaine he picked up at a Philadelphia drop-off site...
...Boston is a large shrine to prepdom, not a city," she said, calling Brattle Street's Club Casablanca the nation's preppy mecca...
...Orleans. "People believe the police can't protect them." They are buying guard dogs and supplies of Mace. Locksmiths and burglar-alarm businesses are flourishing, as are classes in karate and target shooting. Banks have long waiting lists for vacated safety-deposit boxes. Many city sidewalks are a muggers' mecca at night; the elderly dread walking anywhere, even in broadest daylight. The fear of street crime is changing the way America lives...