Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know," says a woman who seems afraid to get too close to the car, a little respectful of the official looking velvet ropes. "You've got tv, and you've got movies and you've got records--but it's nice to have something that he actually touched, you know?" Something that was his." She's wearing a pair of nondescript blue jeans and a halter. She's in her late thirties. She hangs back in the crowd, which, as eight o'clock approaches, is well over three hundred. Everyone is meandering. There are Ford salesmen working the crowd. They...
...limousine itself is impressive--for sheer size, to begin with. It is twenty-five feet long. It is white with a red interior of crushed velvet. The back seat is ridiculously far away from the driver. It is a Lincoln Continental and it was originally made for the movie Shaft. According to Gadlock. Elvis saw the limo in the movie and then decided that he had to have it. Who knows what was going through his mind? Maybe he wanted to be part of some cool new scene. Elvis started playing roadsides all over the south, and the audiences there...
...meantime, patrons will have to make do with the shops and restaurants. Not that those aren't quite enough in themselves. Here, for example, are some of the Pedro/South of the Border souvenir items one can purchase in the 17 stores: velvet paintings, toilet seats, wall hangings, purses, change purses, ash trays, mugs (at least five varieties), salt and pepper shakers, toothpicks and holders, sun visors, jugs, shirts (uncountable selection), measuring cups, placemats, letter holders, desk organizers, soap dishes, "Pedro's paddles", baby pants, baby bibs, back scratcher, coasters, pencil sharpeners, x-rated viewing cameras, jumping beans, figurines of pedro...
...accept and act on the uncertain proof that Americans are being held in Southeast Asia, families of the missing raised a dozen-man commando squad of their own-an underfinanced and overaged group of veterans from the Green Berets. Their improbable training center for an operation code-named "Velvet Hammer" was an academy for cheerleaders in Leesburg, Fla., near Orlando. Their leader was retired Lieut. Colonel James ("Bo") Gritz, 42, a former Army public affairs officer who served in Viet Nam and who now works for Hughes Helicopter in Culver City, Calif. Gritz (rhymes with beets) may not have been...
...former American hostages have picked up their careers and moved ahead with their lives. But the complex deal that won their release four months ago will probably keep lawyers, bankers and diplomats busy for years to come. Last week U.S. and Iranian negotiating teams met in the velvet-lined boardroom of the Palace of Peace in The Hague to; begin carrying out the most controversial feature of that agreement: arbitration of their respective corporate and private financial claims...