Word: underground
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Private enterprise is rather fiercely discouraged in Russia. Nevertheless, a thriving underground capitalism persists. It is carried on by daring entrepreneurs who-often with astounding ease-divert materials from government factories, turn out products in clandestine shops and sell to luxury-starved consumers on the black market. In 1961 Khrushchev decreed death as the penalty for such "economic crimes," and at least 163 accused violators have died before firing squads...
...decade or two late. An old-helmet romantic drama about occupied France, it has Simone Signoret as the chic Parisienne who is drawn into the Resistance movement by the irresistible U.S. flyer (Stuart Whitman). Together they make their way to a bittersweet parting at the Spanish border, along an underground route as familiar as the Champs-Elys...
...garage as currently envisioned would hold 1000 cars and cost $5 million, compared to the Boston Common garage, which has a capacity of 1400 and cost $9.6 million. Although the MPA has not yet prepared plans for the Cambridge structure, Valenti said it might be connected by an underground passage to the Harvard Square MTA station...
Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President for civie affairs, said that "to build a garage that wouldn't fall in" would probably cost about $10 million rather than $5 million, as the MPA estimated. He added that the University had found that underground parking facilities, such as those at Peabody Terrace, cost $5-10,000 a car space...
...owner merely strayed through life (absurd beneath a baseball cap), it was the perfect name for the legends dreamed up to account for his sad silence. "Thelonious Monk? He's a recluse, man." In the mid-'40s, when Monk's reputation at last took hold in the jazz underground, his name and his mystic utterances ("It's always night or we wouldn't need light") made him seem the ideal Dharma Bum to an audience of hipsters: anyone who wears a Chinese coolie hat and has a name like that must be cool...