Word: plazas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contrast to the wake-like atmosphere at the Park Plaza--where reporters and hotel staff outnumbered the smattering of Carter supporters--a heady mixture of cigar smoke and jubilation marked the scene in the jam-packed Commonwealth Room of the Sheraton Boston...
...same cavernous Park Plaza ballroom where Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) had celebrated his primary victory exactly eight months earlier, a projection of a Carter victory brought little notice and only a few handclaps from the sparse gathering...
...Carlos of Spain's gold medal of fine arts. Among the other events: the opening of an exhibition of Miró's works in Madrid's Tiépolo Gallery and the official designation of a square, dominated by a huge Miró ceramic mural, as Plaza Joan Miró. "This signifies recognition of a lifetime's hard, sincere, steady work," exulted the spry octogenarian. "Yes," sighed his wife, Doña Pilar Juncosa, "if only now he would slow down...
...only serious problem with this As You Like It stems from the very overflow of energy that makes each individual characterization so effective. The ART troupe comes to the Loeb fresh from an outdoor staging of the show at City Plaza, and its dimensions haven't been properly scaled down. Some carefully planned comic routines fail to connect because of gestures that are too large, movements too exaggerated, timing off. When Rosalind decides to flee the court with her confidante, the women give a victory whoop that flies into the air and then falls with a clunk on the stage...
...from his trip: money for his country. He estimated that Zimbabwe would need "something on the order of $1.5 billion in the immediate future" to rebuild its economy, and a total of $4 billion for redevelopment. At a luncheon of the Foreign Policy Association in Manhattan's elegant Plaza Hotel, he said Zimbabwe would welcome investment by any U.S. company that allows some measure of local control, pays decent wages, permits unions and plows some of its earnings back into the host country. Promised Mugabe: "Investments are safe. Whatever profits accrue, the investors can remit abroad...