Word: pools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York's State Racing Commission suspended him for five years for fraud, misrepresentation, and mishandling of funds. Jacobson remained an entrepreneur of sorts, though, and he owned the seven-story building where Tupper lived. He rented out apartments to models and stewardesses, keeping a penthouse with swimming pool for himself...
...they jointly earn $48,000. They take frequent "little jaunts" to San Diego, San Francisco and Las Vegas and a longer holiday in the East once a year. Recently, they bought a new second car; they rent an expensive two-bedroom duplex complete with spiral staircase and a swimming pool for residents of the complex. "Fay is the fiscal conservative," says Sam. "She gets uptight if the bills on our credit cards total more than $1,200. We live a comfortable life -our parents wanted us to have what they did not have...
...automobile, doomed to early obsolescence." Aiming at what he called the "assurance of permanence," he turned to more solid structures of concrete, brick and stone. For two decades, Stone produced variations of the New Delhi embassy, with its boxlike shape, gold-leaf columns, lacy concrete grille, fountains and reflecting pool. These works were frequently criticized as superficial and "bargain Taj Mahal," but Stone remained busy with important commissions. His General Motors building in Manhattan was completed in 1968 and Washington's John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts...
...riotous farce set at fictional Faber College in 1962, presents quite another picture. The film's so-called animals-the inhabitants of Faber's most disreputable fraternity house-are a filthy, outrageous lot. They guzzle and spit beer, drive motorcycles indoors, dump Fizzies in the school swimming pool, pile up 1.2 grade-point averages on their "permanent records" and wreck the homecoming parade. Here, at long last, are movie characters who embody the true spirit of American higher education...
...proportions of men and women doing volunteer work become more nearly equal, the feminist objection to volunteerism as a female ghetto may recede. In any case, the needs to be fulfilled transcend the politics of sex. And of age as well. The talent pool of retired Americans, growing larger each year, is an immense resource that should be exploited more, to staff day care centers, for example, and to perform more sophisticated jobs...