Word: excelsior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aging of the population is probably one reason. "Women were complaining that they couldn't find appropriate bathing suits," says Ruth Rubinstein of New York City's Fashion Institute of Technology. "Most were made for the very young who had perfect bodies." Asserts John Rogoff, senior vice president of Excelsior, which markets the Esther Williams line: "There's a tremendous trend toward modesty and conservatism...
After an Ice-Age news bulletin that announces the sighting of a sunrise, we enter the scene with an introduction from Sabina (Kristin Gasser), who services the Antrobus family of Excelsior, New Jersey. As the too-big-for-her-britches and too-bright-for-her-job housekeeper warns us, this play makes no sense. "It can't even decide if we're living in caves or in New Jersey," she declares. Throughout the play, Sabina, portrayed with superb wit and giddiness by Gasser, continues to step outside of the drama and remind us that this is only a play...
When reports first emerged that Victor Cortez Jr., a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent, had been tortured by policemen in Guadalajara, any words of Mexican repentance were drowned out by shouts of resentment. Mexico City's most influential newspaper, Excelsior, ran a cartoon showing two skunks, one labeled "DEA," the other "drug traffickers." An editorial asserted that the very presence of American intelligence-gathering agents created a "stinking sewer." Both the governor and the attorney general of Jalisco state, where the detention had taken place, flatly denied all charges of torture. And the country's Defense Minister, General Juan Arevalo...
DIED. Manuel Buendia, 58, Mexico's leading syndicated political columnist, whose feisty front-page commentary in Mexico City's daily Excelsior frequently exposed corruption and criminality in the higher levels of the government, labor and business, and regularly attacked CIA involvement in Latin America; of gunshot wounds (while entering a parking lot, he was shot at least three times in the back by an assassin who escaped in the crowded streets); in Mexico City. His columns, which had recently zeroed in on corruption in the oil industry and its powerful union, had provoked several death threats...
...Rome's deluxe Excelsior Hotel, with a 50% American clientele, a single room costs from $92 to $118. However, a centrally located double room with bath in a comfortable but nonswank hotel can cost as little as $37. A medium-size rental sedan, say a Fiat 131, goes for $559 a week with unlimited mileage...