Word: shrine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...office, in the center of downtown Boston, is a shrine to Harvard memorabilia: two Harvard chairs, a picture of Harvard's stadium, a framed collection of 100 Harvard 350th anniversary stamps and a collection of Harvard financial books...
Quan has another claim to local fame: in the middle of his orange groves he has erected a 6-ft. shrine to Zhao Ziyang, the Communist Party leader whose tacit support of the student protesters in Tiananmen Square contributed to his ouster in late June. Near the top of the tiled column is a photograph of Zhao -- with Tommy Quan standing at his side in his Seattle Seahawks cap. "Zhao made it all possible," says Quan. "He showed people that incentives can turn China around. Now that he is out of favor, my friends think I should tear my monument...
Zawicki's belief in a cost-free route to fortune is what Atlantic City, in its newest incarnation, is all about. Shrine of the shill, hometown of hucksterism, municipal embodiment of the motto "Ocean, emotion and constant promotion," the city has reinvented itself time and time again for the sake of a new hustle. In 1936 its mayor claimed that the Miss America Pageant was a "cultural event." (True, a contestant in last week's pageant -- the 63rd -- did sing an aria from Die Fledermaus, but the event is still more about swimwear than opera.) During the Prohibition...
...only thing I knew about Atlantic City was that Louis Malle had made a movie about it," she says. Painton, an American, grew up in Paris and attended French schools until college and, like the French director, found the famous U.S. resort something exotic. "I approached this American shrine -- and Atlantic City is one -- with the intense curiosity of a foreigner," she says...
...also got to work on our decorating," Silverman adds, looking around the common room, which is an elaborate shrine to Chicago Bulls' star Michael Jordan, whose photograph stands behind the basketball hoop. "When you dunk the ball," Silverman says, pushing the basketball through the net once more, "you can see Jordan's face through the backboard...