Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seven cars, including his gold-plated 1972 Cadillac Eldorado, rest in his Memphis garages, Hayes tools around the country in his latest acquisition: a 30-ft. silver-gray Cadillac limousine that can be started by remote control in cold weather. Included in the $36,000 price tag: a red velvet love seat, bar, refrigerator, color TV and stereo. Plus two phones and two electrically operated sun roofs. There's a closed-circuit TV intercom between front and back seats...
...nice a place as any to get a sandwich or a snack of cheese and crackers. The luncheon menu is varied--the offerings range from a simple BLT sandwich to Hungarian goulash. Beer and wine is served, but the coffees are your best bet. The Parrot Viennese Velvet (coffee with ice cream, brazilia, and whipped cream) is the best of them. The Parrot stays open at night with a slightly more expensive version of the lunch menu...
...tomboy who played Softball with the fellas in Long Beach, Calif. Sport, she realized, was her thing, but the demand for female shortstops was limited. Her father, a fireman, suggested that she choose tennis, swimming or golf, and she squandered $8 on a purple racket with a velvet grip. After her first day on the courts she told her mother that she wanted to be "the best tennis player in the world...
...promise is peace--that's my contract with you," Guru Maharaj Ji told an overflow audience of 6700 followers at War Memorial Auditorium. He spoke from a red velvet throne mounted on a satin covered platform, and covered with a suspended semi-circle of cut glass crystals that broke the auditorium lights into an artificial rainbow...
This concern for urban fabric led Weese to his first renovation job-Chicago's Auditorium Theater. Designed by Adler and Sullivan in the 1880s, it had become a U.S.O. club with bowling alleys and finally ended as a neglected shell. Its roof leaked; its 4,000 velvet-covered seats were rotting. Weese meticulously restored the stately interior with its soaring arches, curving balconies and richly ornamental plaster friezes. The work cost $2,000,000 and was finished in 1967. The result: a glowing, golden concert and opera hall with near perfect acoustics...