Word: bazaar
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...Hong Kong parade ground, Corrigan and Wynne plan to build a luxurious, $12 million, 25-story hotel to take advantage of Hong Kong's drastic shortage of hotel space. The hotel will have 1,040 air-conditioned rooms, elevators and escalators, a shopping center and bazaar, a permanent exhibition hall, and an all-glass roof under which diners and dancers can gaze out upon one of the world's loveliest bays. The Texas partners hope to get back their investment in three to five years...
...casual traveler can order eight best-quality English worsted suits at $25 apiece and receive them meticulously tailored, after two hotel-room fittings, less than 24 hours later. In the same time and for even less money his wife, pointing to the pages of a Harper's Bazaar or Vogue kept on the counter of every Queen's Road tailor, can outfit herself in a copied suit, cocktail ensemble and dinner dress, all in rich Thai silk...
...metaphorists of high fashion made the whole thing sound startling, fragile and very expensive: "Suddenly, with clothes going soft and guileful," cried Vogue, "the beauty aspect is changing from cosy-natural to smooth-as-sapphire." Harper's Bazaar personified it in a Golden Girl: "Blithe spirit, her skin the beige of beaches," dressed in "14-carat comfort, 14-carat chic." What was exciting them was the new effort to add elegance to the casual look of the American woman. Sportswear for milady has never been more abundant, more nearly priced for every pocketbook, more durable, or made more suitable...
Suddenly from deep underneath the jagged Zagros mountain range came a 50-second, stomach-wrenching tremor. A toppling wall buried 70 girl students, killing 58. The dome of the bazaar collapsed like a circus tent after roustabouts removed the center poles. For a moment the stunned city was deathly still. Then the moans of the dying mingled with the wails of the survivors, who clawed with bare hands at the rubble, frantically searching for missing parents or children...
...every shark. And Pollyanna plays the game with such a monstrous power of positive thinking that after two hours and 14 minutes under that relentless little ray of sunshine, the whole town she lives in is dissolved into a mile-wide meringue of mawkishness. At a big charity bazaar, they all sing America the Beautiful, and later somebody bursts out sobbing: "Just think! If she had never come to this town! We ought to get down on our knees and thank God for sending...