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...Japanese engineers and artisans who built the park nonetheless stamped it with their signatures. Main Street is spanned by a gigantic roof, a concession to Japan's rainy season. For a Western barn, carpenters used an ancient Oriental method for fitting wooden joints together precisely. Two shows are tailored to the locale: Meet the World uses film and animation in a revolving theater to give insights into 2,000 years of Japanese history, and The Eternal Sea, an 18-minute movie, whisks audiences past open-jawed sharks and over the ocean floor...
...Tuesday you should happen to spot a white 1983 Pontiac Firebird with blue stars on the roof and the words "Capitol of Air" on that side in huge red letter, the man behind the wheel will be George W. Polk...
...University of the South, better known as Sewanee, sits high atop a Tennessee mountain, so close to heaven that undergraduates believe the institution has its own guardian angel. Hence the school ritual: when a student drives out through the sandstone gates, he taps the roof of his car to summon the angel. When he returns safely to campus, he taps the car roof again to release his protector. Lately that celestial patron has been off campus on a new mission, fund raising. When Tennessee Williams died last month, the University of the South found itself the principal beneficiary...
...agents like to describe as "very special." Maybe a little too special. The two-bedroom units in the pencil-thin tower start at $582,500 and go as high as $1.2 million. They come complete with spectacular views, small kitchens (who cooks?), marble baths with Jacuzzi whirlpools and a roof garden for parties. Owner Harold Lynn, 45, a onetime Seventh Avenue clothing importer, admits that the Rolls come-on amounts to a $110,000 discount to perk up sales (twelve of his 21 units are unsold...
...earlier. The trio hopped in a cab, and the car moved through the city of San Salvador, heading for the portion of town known as the "combat zone." The buriy Reed noticed that the rear window had been previously shot out and there was a bullet hole in the roof...