Word: souveniring
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...recording studio, of slick electronic techniques. Leading musicians concertize and make records the way they drink-quickly, while everybody is looking, with few rehearsals and fewer regrets. The more natural, unlaundered, even raunchy the result, the better. As Michael Murphey puts it in his Cosmic Cowboy Souvenir album...
...Clemente is adjusting calmly to the reduced estate of its most famous resident. Souvenir hunters quickly made off with signs referring to the city as the "home of the Western White House." One mile northeast of the Nixon house, the 300-unit condominium development called "Presidential Heights" continues to advertise that "nearly every hillhouse home has a view of the Western White House." Real Estate Broker Charles Day said last week that the ad may be changed, but not the name. "It's been very successful," he insisted. "It has the connotation of quality and success...
...Billy Penn Hatbrim Rule," which holds that no building may rise higher than 548 ft. (or about 40 stories), the height of the hatbrim on the huge statue of Penn that surmounts city hall. As a result, the sidewalks are flooded with sunlight from city hall, a gloriously gaudy souvenir of the 19th century, to the simplicity and quiet dignity of Independence Hall...
...EUROPEAN influence in Gomes's speech is not a souvenir from studies abroad. It was picked up from his father, a fisherman from the Cape Verdi islands who came to the United States at the turn of the century and married the daughter of a black family that had escaped to the north via the Underground Railway just before the Civil War. Gomes's parents settled in Plymouth--only minutes from the Rock--and raised their children amid the history and the religion of the old Pilgrim landing...
...Guard has a ruggedly masculine decor. Large black-and-white action photos of the Minnesota Vikings adorn the walls. Near the bar is a football souvenir shop called the Pro Central, and the young, long-haired and busty bar girls wear football jerseys with their names printed across the front. Because the football stadium and hockey arena are only a mile away, Viking and Minnesota North Star heroes often drop in after games. When they do, heads turn and female bodies surge forward. "Our theme is built around violence," says Manager Larry Thiel. "Women seem captivated by the manliness...