Word: tonk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...designing establishment a bit seasick. Dennis Lennon, who was chiefly responsible for the original interior design of the ship, quit after two weeks on the new project. "It was a national ship," he explained. "It wasn't something to play around with and turn into a honky-tonk." James Gardner, the principal exterior designer of the original, said of the altered superstructure: "We tried to give her lines a quiet dignity like the Mark III Bentley, but now lumps have been added...
...exciting for its greater freedom in execution. With sections of strings and horns building beautifully upon his musical themes, Simon produces a forceful sound surpassing any of the mechanical blends of trumpets and gravelly singing that pass for jazz on the AM Top Ten. The style ranges from honky-tonk, to Gershwinian melancholy, to high-energy, upbeat popular jazz, to barroom bluesiness more reminiscent of Simon's earlier songs...
...ever notice how it's all Monopoly out there?" Jason Staebler asks his brother David from behind the bars of an Atlantic City jail. Now, nearly deserted in winter, long past its honky-tonk glory, Atlantic City survives like a huge, standing game board, residents and random vacationers wandering from Boardwalk to Park Place to Marvin Gardens like tokens moved at an idle throw of dice. It is simple enough, as the Staeblers will discover, to get out of jail. There is no way, though, out of the game...
...which reopened recently. The Protestant one, opened last Easter Sunday on a street opposite Peking's Tung Tan shopping center, is served by the Reverend Kan and his assistant, a 50-year-old deacon. A white-haired little old Chinese lady plays hymns on an upright honky-tonk piano. The hymns and the service are all in Chinese, even though the congregation is mostly European and only four members are actually Chinese...
...barring acts of God or a radical sweep of city elections, the transformation of Harvard Square is unstoppable. Whether the class of '76 spends its first reunion in a honky-tonk tourist trap, or a thriving, accessible, commercially diverse Harvard Square, will be known--soon...