Word: soho
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while gardening may be many things for many people, dirt cheap it ain't. Among the quickest ways to run through a fortune is to approach the garden with the eye of a connoisseur. "Trees are my 87th collection," admits Louis Meizel, who, with his wife Susan, owns a SoHo art gallery and a 3 1/2-acre Long Island farm. "As with all our collections, our goal is to put together the best of each kind in the world." They have spent about $100,000 thus far, in part because they are buying grown trees, like the $12,000 Crimson King...
...SoHo chic has come to Winter River. Charles and Delia Deetz are hosts of their premiere dinner party in the charming old Connecticut house they have just bought. The Deetzes' teenage daughter Lydia, who dresses like Carolyn Jones in The Addams Family, sulks in the corner. The conversation fizzes, then fizzles; the guests shift uneasily. Time for a little . . . Day-o! Day-ay-ay- o! Daylight come and me wan' go home! What? Delia has risen and, to the astonishment of all, begun singing Harry Belafonte's banana-boat hit of 30 years past. Work all night on a drink...
Furthermore, the ignorant know nothing of the many benefits bestowed upon Quadlings by the powers-that-be in Mass Hall. They don't know about Sunday night milk and cookies (a legendary and lofty Radcliffe tradition), Ice Walls, Floyd's Soho Grille, Nick's Beef 'n' Beer, the Starship Enterprise Dining Hall, not to mention McDonalds, Popeye's Fried Chicken, White Hen Pantry, and the rest of the stores along Mass...
...aware of the Quad's most spacious and elegant living accommodations. While Riverlings are crammed into closet-sized doubles, we at the Quad enjoy space, space, and more space. Most residents have singles in newly renovated suites that include skylights, carpeting, private baths, saunas, room service from Floyd's Soho Grille, and a view of the expansive Radcliffe Quad, which is filled with content residents skipping with joy to their classes...
Every so often a tiny upstart tackles a corporate giant and wins. Last week it was the turn of Manhattan-based American Natural Beverage, which should sell about $30 million of its Soho Natural Sodas this year. In an out-of-court settlement, the ten-year-old company forced Anheuser-Busch (1986 revenues: $7.6 billion) to drop the checkerboard logo that appears on its Zeltzer Seltzer sodas. American Natural had charged that the Zeltzer Seltzer design looked "confusingly similar" to its own. Said American Natural President Sophia Collier: "This just shows you have to fight for what's right...