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Tourists and shoppers flock instead to the McDonald's in Pushkin Square or to Tverskaya Ulitsa, Moscow's Fifth Avenue. There, dazzling neon signs invite motorists and pedestrians to savor the sensations of a swinging metropolis awash in restaurants, nightclubs and luxury boutiques. This is the new Russian capital, Moscow as Vegas of the North...
...pulls in to the bus stop opposite the neon Coney Island Hot Dog sign, your date sighs, as s/he begins to be filled with a feeling locals know as Worcesterpride. You hail a cab, whistling a romantic tune by onetime Worcester resident Cole Porter, and you and your date (who by now is so impressed s/he is destined to become your lifelong mate as well as fellow Worcester resident), head to phase I of your Wicked Awesome Valentine's Day Date, dinner at the Boulevard Diner. As the saying goes "Ain't no place finer than the Boulevard Diner...
First, the facts. The Shops opened on Oct.. 20 with a gala reception and a lot of hoopla. Clearly, Harvard had invested a lot in transforming the dark, dank corridor that ran through Holyoke Center into a bright, warm gallery of shops, kiosks and cafes. Indeed, just the neon-accented sign out front cost the University more than...
...looks best in the final scene, when the houses are cleared away and the stage is swathed in bright white accentuating the neon-painted bookcase, chair and rocking horse. Only then is the orchard visibly the heart of the house, and of the characters' lives...
...grew dark and the view of rice fields was soon replaced by that of gas stations, announced by blinking, green and pink neon signs and barren land cleared for construction. The road was crowded with trucks loaded with steel pipes. Our van jerked, swerved and cut past each of them...