Word: parked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...store, I'm terrified. It's more than the prices, it's the whole concept of food. It's the basic substance of life." Some shoppers have become de facto vegetarians because of the sky-high price of meat, but vegetables are no bargain either. Marsha Avrushin of Oak Park, Mich., has taken to prowling supermarkets for off-brand items. Says she: "When I was a kid, a candy bar was a real treat. What makes my kids' mouths water now is a salad. Fruits and vegetables have become a luxury." Though shoppers everywhere are becoming much more discriminating...
...through the pristine glass there is that great swath of the United States, a land that can barely be glimpsed from the interstate highway or sensed from 35,000 ft. To be sure, the view from Bedroom A or the dome car exposes every automobile graveyard, garbage dump, trailer park, parking lot, drive-in, burger joint, shopping mall, sewage plant, forsaken factory, slum and rural hovel in the unwritten guidebook of desecrated America. Its obverse, as the Crescent weaves its whistling way south toward summer, is a varied, often startlingly beautiful landscape of feathery woods and forests, roses and rhododendrons...
...million; half of them were unsecured. The money went into a variety of enterprises, including more than $400,000 into land development, $378,000 to Marvin's trucking firm and $75,000 for a movie distributing company. She invested $281,000 in Stars over Alabama, a Hamilton amusement park that never opened and mysteriously burned last summer. She even made a brief fling at manufacturing wicker furniture, sinking $14,165 into a company headed by her two children and their spouses...
During his senior year at New York City's Union Theological Seminary, William Silver "came to the point at which I could say openly that I was gay. I told almost everyone." Among those he told were members of Central Presbyterian Church, a Park Avenue parish that found his homosexuality no reason not to "call" Silver as its assistant pastor...
Foreigners are enchanted by amusement parks, where they can say hello to Mickey Mouse and see the embodiments of American fantasies. At California's Disneyland, nearly 9% of all visitors are foreign, and the percentage is only slightly smaller at Disney World in Florida. Arabs are thrilled most of all by the roller coasters. A Kuwaiti businessman was disappointed when told he could not rent California's Magic Mountain amusement park for a day exclusively for his party of twelve...