Word: motel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...favors an existing proposal by the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority to replace the Boston Garden with a $114 million multi-purpose arena to he funded by an increase in the state's hotel-motel tax according to Heddad...
...usually cannot afford to buy proven talent, they often recruit unknowns and has-beens. When Don Tolle of Atlanta started his Noble Vision country-music label in 1979, he had no artists. He tracked down Jim Glaser, a once successful singer who had grown fat and unhappy playing in motel bars. After finding a financial backer, Hal Oven, they recorded an old song of Glaser's and turned it into a hit by making phone calls to 1,100 radio stations. That led to an album, The Man in the Mirror, which has stayed on the country charts...
Here is film noir stripped down to its basics--a road, a bar, a motel, an affair, a private eye, a murder, a pinwheeling series of betrayals--then customized with camera style. Strapped to a car fender, or sauntering at ankle level through a rowdy party, or tracking smoothly down a long bar counter (and over a passed-out customer), the Coens' camera is a participant in the action, and worlds hipper than anyone on-screen. "Hi, I'm here," it as much as says, "and I'm soooo smart." It is too; it creates elegant riddles of space...
...engaged a car for the next two days. They all piled in and drove a couple of hours' distance from Cambridge--far enough away so that no one they knew would be likely to stumble upon them. For the next day and a half, they locked themselves into a motel room, and crammed intensively for their organic final...
...highway, which ripped right through one of the tires. There was no spare in the car, and no repairman was available until the next day. We were in a remote area, and there was no other choice for us but to spend the night in a nearby motel. Only today was the tire repaired, and so we are a day late for your final...