Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Elvis Presley Boulevard, a wide strip of used car lots, fast food restaurants and gas stations, leads to Graceland. By noon the rising temperature is well into the 90s and ambulances are carrying away those who have succumbed to the heat while crowding in front of the ornate plantation-style house. A brick wall on the grounds has turned into a "Wall of Love," covered with scrawled messages from admirers. Some of the fans have patiently endured the three-hour wait every day for a week so they can again and again walk up the shaded driveway, past rows...
...image maker. I consider myself a communicator, trying to help articulate the President's goals and themes." But he is obviously more than that and even comes close to living up to the inscription, taken from one of Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury comic-strip characters, on a plaque given to him by his former advertising associates: SECRETARY OF SYMBOLISM...
...main focus of the vacation onslaught has been that 160-mile strip of overbuilt beach front in the south of France, the Côte d'Azur. Local rail terminals are overflowing as additional sun worshipers pour into Saint-Tropez, Sainte-Maxime, Cannes, Nice and Menton. When they arrive, along with myriad motorists who are clogging France's autoroute du soleil, a rude shock is waiting: no accommodations are available. As many as 1,000 people a day are redirected by the local tourist office to the Maritime Alps, inland and anywhere from 50 to 100 miles...
Peres: I disagree with the Israeli government's attitude. The declaration of principles might even bring Jordan's King Hussein into the peace negotiations. If I were in power, I would tactically conclude first the declaration of principles about the future of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Afterward I would conclude the negotiations on Sinai. I do not believe we can reach agreement with the Egyptians on Sinai without having reached an agreement in principle on the future of the West Bank and Gaza. The next step would be to announce our preference for a territorial compromise that...
...Springsteen leaps into an audience, playing with them, strutting and joking, he cuts up like a star. Yet he also cracks self-deprecating jokes during performances and just recently defaced his own billboard above Sunset Strip with a can of spray paint. His myths are in his music, not in his life. The Jersey shore he sings about is becoming universal territory, and his mentions of Asbury Park are greeted with home-town cheers everywhere. But he remains wary of celebrity, recalling, "When I was a kid, what mattered to me more than the performers was the power...