Word: souveniring
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...keep its home in New York. The team's owners swear the Yankees have not the slightest intention of moving to another town, but eager fans with long memories were not so sure. So they yanked out rows of wooden seats, tore signs from walls, and scooped up souvenir clumps of grass to take home. Fittingly enough, first base went to Mrs. Lou Gehrig in honor of her husband who once guarded it so well, and home plate went to Mrs. Babe Ruth, whose husband minced across it triumphantly so many times...
...line for the ski lift when on vacation. He also hobnobs with Vienna's most brilliant intellectuals and artists. The ease with which he mixes with all strata of Austrians has made him his country's most popular postwar Chancellor, so much so that a Kreisky-souvenir industry has blossomed-complete with Kreisky piggy banks, T shirts and clothes hangers. A bestseller is a wall poster depicting the Chancellor in a superman costume leaping over all sorts of political hurdles...
...Square--The tourists attracted to the museum will spawn more fast-food establishments and souvenir shops, and the higher rents will force the small cafes out of the area...
...present revival of interest in Hitler signifies anything beyond kinky fashion and souvenir hunting - the sort of impulse that, for years, has retained the jackboot and Hakenkreuz as essential furniture in the theater of sado masochistic imagination - it means that a degree of impatience with the demonic image has set in. What concerns the modern audience, and made Speer's memoir the bestseller it deservedly was, is not Hitler's myth but his documentary truth. What, beginning with his humanness, did he have in common with the people around us and with ourselves? What on earth...
...Rebel 500 at Darlington, S.C. As the mechanics worked, some of the 3,000 car buffs who tour Petty Enterprises each year looked on. Like pilgrims at a shrine, they inspected the last remnants of Papa Petty's old reaper shed and then repaired to a souvenir stand where they stocked up on Petty postcards, Petty T shirts, Petty racing jackets and Petty plaques. King Richard himself, wearing wraparound sunglasses and stroking his new Fu Manchu mustache, put in an appearance. Why, someone asked, had he bothered to compete in the North Wilkesboro race, a relatively minor event that...