Word: ramada
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interest in The French Atlantic Affair is the exuberant fraudulence of its every frame. Locations as far apart as Paris and Taos appear to be in the same time zone. The Festivale, though described as "very chic, very in, very high style," looks like a floating Ramada Inn. The script is a graveyard of unintentional boners. In one particularly cross moment, Savalas snarls, "Am I a fool? Do you think I talk just to hear my head rattle?" In this sweeps extravaganza, such questions are invariably -and giddily- rhetorical...
Venturi saw the everyday commercial vernacular-McDonald's, Ramada Inn, Burger King, Tastee-Freez, Fatburger. Kentucky Fried-as a source, just as the International Style had used the "styleless" metaphor of machinery, biplanes and ocean liners as its source...
...around the stage and come under the spotlight one by one, the men, already standing in a circle, turned in different directions and bumped into one another. Slapstick comedy had returned. At a Law Day convention in Portsmouth, R.I., a dozen Boston policemen were discovered cavorting nude in the Ramada Inn pool; unfortunately, the discoverers were a group of visiting parochial school girls led by two nuns. And who can forget the sign that the Las Vegas Hilton hung for a reunion of former Navy aircraft-carrier jet pilots? It should have said, WELCOME TAILHOOKERS. It said, WELCOME HOOKERS...
...send its stock flying, all a company has to do is hint that it might get into gambling. Shares of Ramada Inns, which is merely rumored to be interested in diversifying into gaming, have risen 267% this year. Reflecting the market's irrationality as well as its volatility, Wurlitzer, the jukebox producer, climbed several points after announcing that it was not expanding into slot machines. Though worried by the jumpiness of the stocks, the New York and American exchanges had been reluctant to do anything that might spoil the action that is profitably increasing volume and enticing people into...
When the worst of the cold struck, some 40 migrant workers were taken from their flimsy camp shacks near Winter Garden by county officials and housed and fed at public expense for six days in a Ramada Inn. In the area as a whole, however, the crisis has heightened rather than eased the traditional tensions between growers and workers. Florida Governor Reubin Askew's success in getting Carter to declare the region a disaster area is resented by the owners in conservative Lake and Orange counties-both of which voted for Gerald Ford in November. They are afraid that...