Word: owner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crucial piece of plot information: the girl has mistaken the tramp for a rich man. Nothing seems to work. The scene is finally completed, but Chaplin returns to it months later with one more idea: a limousine door slams shut, and the girl assumes the tramp is its owner. At last, the sequence works; perfectionism is repaid. So is the scholarship and dedication of Brownlow and Gill. Unknown Chaplin is that rarity, a masterpiece about a master...
Businesses surrounding the new park praised the renovation because "it will clean up the area," said Sue Kuelzer, owner of Grendel's. She said that Grendel's has tentative plans to set up outside tables overlooking the park...
...model for Ba-Ba-Reeba! and for many other U.S. outposts is the Ballroom, New York City's best tapas tavern and one of the first in the country. The chef and co-owner, Felipe Rojas-Lombardi, is a virtuoso of the meal-in- miniature. To the standard array of morsels, he adds innovations such as chicken in curry, headcheese in a satiny pimiento puree, slivers of crackling crisp roast pig and seviche of scallops. Rojas-Lombardi has his three tapas cooks prepare 25 choices each day, and his menu also lists eight or ten conventional main courses, both Spanish...
...Chinese laundry--more precisely, an American-style laundry-dry cleaning shop--will soon open in the People's Republic. Fred P.C. Chao, 66, a Chinese-born owner of Korakleen, a small San Francisco-based cleaning chain, says that his company will establish a combination Laundromat and dry cleaner this September in Tianjin, China. A coastal city located about 80 miles east of Peking, Tianjin was Chao's hometown. If his first store proves successful, ^ he hopes to open between ten and 100 more throughout the world's most populous country. Easy on the starch, please...
Still, notes former Johannesburg Mayor Monty Sklaar, "you find a terrible anti-black attitude among the lower-income groups. Part of the problem is that they see blacks as a threat to their jobs, and it's getting worse." Jacob Kruger, the owner of a Port Elizabeth engineering company, says he is optimistic about some of the recent reforms but pessimistic about a hardening white attitude that seems to him to be saying "The West has deserted us, so we'll go it alone and do it our way." Concludes Kruger: "I'm afraid that if this attitude wins...