Word: memorabilia
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...Zeitgeist city of the 1980s. This Los Angeles is a kingdom of chic sleaze, where every black soul gleams like Bakelite. In the Rodeo Drive boutiques, Iranian thugs and their bimbos are served champagne and caviar. Diana's brother (Bruce McGill) dresses himself and his apartment in Elvis memorabilia and drives a white Caddy bearing the legend THE KING LIVES. A shabby-genteel Brit (David Bowie) eases his gun into Ed's mouth--in front of Tiffany--and purrs, "I like you, Ed." A rancid TV producer (Paul Mazursky) asks his girlfriend (Kathryn Harrold) to play kinky games with...
...building walls. It took 100 fire fighters two hours to control the blaze, which damaged only the first two floors of the structure. "Whoever did it might have had a key or hid in the building," said Fire Marshal Jim Badgett. In the basement where the fire originated, assassination memorabilia, including old photographs, were destroyed...
...town of Dien Bien Phu, with a population of about 4,000, is bustling as workers put finishing touches on exhibits in the new war museum, a converted rice warehouse filled with battle memorabilia, including bullet-riddled French helmets. In the nearby hamlet of Thanh An, 120 women dressed in long black skirts and brightly colored blouses drill barefoot in preparation for the anniversary parade...
...Cianci officially left office--with state police combing through all his memorabilia before it left City Hall forever--at 6 p.m. on Wednesday night, and Joseph P. Paolino Jr., the city council president, took office a little after 8 p.m. Paolino had to get special permission because he's only 28 years old Paolino vowed that, upon assuming the office of 90-day temporary mayor, he would fire Sandy Gorodetsky and reinstate Chief Mancuso Unfortunately. Sandy resigned on Tuesday to avoid being fired by Paolino, along with the chief of the disreputable...
While the library's forte is in French and English literature of the 17th century and in medieval manuscripts, it offers such diverse memorabilia as Leon Trotsky's personal papers, and original works by William and Henry James, James Joyce, Alexander Pope, and many more. One of Houghton's lesser known attributes is its autograph collection; a wall of well-known signatures is featured in the Houghton Collection-but not open for public display...