Word: milles
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Carolyn Pitts runs her palm over the hand-tooled sandstone exterior of an old textile mill. "The stonework is marvelous," she says. "It was obviously ! meant to be a real showpiece." Built in 1849 in Cannelton, Ind., alongside the Ohio River, the brooding, fortress-like structure with twin turrets and heavily bracketed cornice was abandoned in the 1950s. Now the roof is a wreck, and starlings nest inside...
...recommendation from Pitts could save the mill. As the sole architectural historian working for the National Park Service's history division, she decides what structures should be considered National Historic Landmarks. Pitts walks through the mill's vast, empty work space and taps a few dusty columns. Her verdict: "I think I'm playing with fire, but I'm still going to try to landmark...
John McCarthy, executive director of the Association of Quality Clubs, reports that 25% of his 1,550 member clubs offer seminars in nutrition, stress management and smoking cessation; 25% have weight-loss programs; and 12% provide courses in self-esteem. Among the more adventurous is the Saw Mill River Club in Mount Kisco, N.Y., which conducts lectures on self-healing and hypnosis and occasionally brings in a sex therapist for a panel discussion...
...forewarned: Longtime Companion is not Dick Tracy; it is not your run-of-the-mill summer flick...
...AIDS is not your run-of-the-mill epidemic disease, either, and Longtime Companion aptly performs a wellneeded task--reminding us that life is not as predictable and rational as other summer films would have us believe...