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Word: plazas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...love down-home honesty, rubes named Roone and all you can eat. The two Sadies (Midler and Midler), true Manhattan ladies, swoon at the sight of stretch limos, Tiffany and anything in pants. The country Ratliffs come North to fight the city Sheltons, and all four stay at the Plaza Hotel. Doors slam and chaos reigns, beaux are vamped and revamped, ideals are compromised and identities scrambled in this conglomerate comedy of errors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Country Girls vs. Manhattan Ladies BIG BUSINESS | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

...strut. She lopes easily from City Sadie, the bitch goddess who spits out orders to her lab scientists ("Get tougher rats!"), to Country Sadie, struggling with her press-on nails ("I guess I should've pressed harder") and giddy with her first sip of high life in a Plaza bathroom ("Cute little soaps in the shape of swans! Could you die!"). Tomlin plays the Roses, but Midler is a fistful of Daisys: Miller, Buchanan and Mae. She is more than High Concept. As a movie star, even in this efficient little comedy, Bette is heaven in high heels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Country Girls vs. Manhattan Ladies BIG BUSINESS | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

Charney followed the 56-year-old physician from West Palm Beach, Fla. for about five blocks from the site of the blaze at Yale's Beinecke Plaza before the pair stopped in a college dormitory archway. The two then engaged in a brief conversation before police arrived and arrested Bracey...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Yale Alumnus Charged With Burning of Shanty | 6/8/1988 | See Source »

Daniels said the alumni did not resent the purpose of the shanty, but rather its placement on a plaza originally designed to memorialize "the Yale men who died in the World Wars...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Yale Alumnus Charged With Burning of Shanty | 6/8/1988 | See Source »

...graduate of Duke and Harvard Business School, Pearlman worked two years for Plaza Securities, the firm of Corporate Raider Asher Edelman. Says Pearlman: "I don't think that age is the most important factor. It's doing your homework and understanding what needs to be done." Evidently, Wall Street agrees. Bankers Trust has offered Pearlman financing worth $120 million, proving that it thinks the young man's takeover is anything but kid stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAKEOVERS: Raider League, Junior Division | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

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