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Near dawn one nippy day last November, several dozen sleepy citizens of Baltimore gathered at the new Reisterstown Plaza station just northwest of downtown. After seven years of jackhammered streets and more than a quarter-century of discussion and planning, they were eager to board the city's gleaming new subway for its first passenger run. Just past 5 a.m., the shiny silver-and-blue Metro cars, built at a cost of $600,000 each, whooshed into view. Marveled Mark Miller, a radio announcer who had risen at 3:30 to catch the inaugural trip: "It was a dream...
...Heaven Can Wait. God (the voice of Gene Hackman) sends a quartet of angels (led by Charles Durning) to earth to help a couple of mean-mouthed losers (guess who?). Nothing works: not the whimsy, not the melodrama, not even the food fight in the Palm Court of the Plaza Hotel. A stupefying shambles, Two of a Kind just noses out Staying Alive for Worst Picture of the Year...
Memphis-based Holiday Inns, the biggest chain in the U.S. with some 1,700 hotels, is taking the theory a step further. The company has spent more than $200 million building eight Crowne Plaza hotels, its new line of cushy inns with rooms priced at about 20% more per night than the average $42 Holiday Inn room. Offering its guests such little extras as a free morning paper and a toiletry kit, the company will portray Crowne Plaza as luxury at reasonable rates. Spacious rooms designed for business travelers will be available in another Holiday Inn chain called Embassy Suites...
...anguish; their scientifically orchestrated struggle to conceive is a humiliation to him and a vast inconvenience to her romantic impulses. For the oldest twosome (Beth Fowler and James Congdon), who already have three grown children, it is a bestartlement; they had no idea that weekend at the Plaza would put such a stimulating glow into their sunset years. It is the virtue of Sybille Pearson's book that the principals never become archetypes, thanks to her gift for tart dialogue and pleasant personification. It is the defect of her writing that things proceed a little too smoothly. Some second...
...terrible repression. We have lamented over many dramatic events. People sent into internal exile, mass torture, large scale illegal searches of homes, deaths, and on and on without end. The other day a man in Concepcion [Chile's second major city] lit himself on fire in the central plaza because his son and daughter had disappeared. They were being held in secret prison by the CNI [Chilrean Intelligence Service, known for its practice of brutal tortures...