Word: partings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part circus, part revival meeting, part convention. Most of the paying guests, according to Wilson, were hotel and shopping-center people and "the Who's Who of the theme-restaurant business." Theme restaurants have nothing to do with Ye Olde Tea Shoppes. These days quaint is a growth industry. Houlihan's Old Place, for example, has grown in the past seven years from one place in Kansas City to a national chain of 18 restaurants, featuring stained glass, antique kitsch and rock music. Recently bought by W.R. Grace, Houlihan's will open ten new restaurants this year...
...stained glass put together into a ceiling that might have cost $1,000 a few years ago. ("So it's gotta be worth $20,000 in a coupla years, right?") But if that $10,000 ceiling goes into a building on the National Register of Historic Places as part of a renovation approved by the Department of the Interior, it can be written off under recent preservation and renovation tax benefits. Or, as a capital improvement to a building 20 years old or older, it can be eligible for a 10% investment tax credit. "Preservation" pays...
This was in some ways the hardest-hitting part of the program because of itds topicality; Smith's direct references to the series of murders served to sharpen the focus of the other outcries make that night against violence against women. Especially poignant were her musings on the lack of opportunity most black women have to escape the atmosphere of fear--"to get away, and write...
Where V.S. Naipaul is a universalist, drawing parallels among the people he sees, Shiva Naipaul is a defensive separatist. This sense of separation stems in part from the nature of a travelogue, which forces him to keep a distance from his subjects. For hi, sanity only exists in the industrialized West--i.e., England. The nightmare only begins when one boards the flight to Africa...
Haymarket will give the money to the Africa Fund, part of the American Committee on Africa, which will channel the money free of charge...