Word: motel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will rest while his parents glide through their 25,000-mile, six-week tour of Australia and New Zealand, returning nine times to check up on their son and recuperate. Their first stop: Room 303 (complete with hot tub and tea bags) in the roadside, 52-unit Gap Motel, just down the street from the Piggly Wiggly supermarket...
...learned nothing. Outfitted in punk khaki - checker-rimmed dark glasses, red sneakers, ornamental bruise on her arm - Wren crashes the Peppermint Lounge and puts the make on new wave musicians, who pay about as much attention to her as they would to the framed landscape on a motel-room wall. This Piaf-size waif has big, gaudy dreams; what she gives and gets is 24-hours-a-day pain, as stark and grating as a dentist's drill...
...save mom and pop's failing business at the same time. But in 1980's Sydney. Australia, the girl next door is a Toyah-coiffed punkette who's not averse to finding true love in a one-night stand, and the mom and pop business is the HarborView Motel, a working class pub with a vintage Fabulous Fifties interior that squeaks like your grandmother's plastic slipcovers...
...after they met in February 1981, urging her to divorce her estranged husband. She said that she realized her "prince had turned into a frog" when he borrowed $1,600 in cash and $40,000 worth of inventory from her clothing shop and then failed to return to a motel where she was waiting with her mother and three children. Another of Vigliotto's wives, Sharon Clark of Angola, Ind., told the jury that she was abandoned barefoot and $49,000 poorer in an Ontario motel three weeks after their June 1981 wedding. But Clark tracked her larcenous Lothario...
...contest's exam was given to nearly 2000 undergraduates in early December. University Treasurer George C. Putnam '49, a grandson of the competition's original sponsor, said yesterday "28 young faculty members holed up in a motel over New Year's weekend" to correct the test...