Word: high-class
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...some campuses, playing them is the second most popular pastime after streaking. They are popular, too, at bowling alleys, skating rinks and the like. But they also appeal to the proprietors of staid businesses that would never have permitted a standard pinball machine through the door, including some high-class restaurants and hotels. The reasons: despite a high purchase price (about $1,100), the machines are cheaper and easier to maintain than mechanical games...
...hours, seven days a week. "Sometimes I sleep to 9:30," he feels compelled to add. Frank does like to work, but not 18 hours a day. "Maybe 10 hours be good," he thinks aloud a bit dreamily. "Maybe I work five more years here, and then start high-class restaurant...
...irony of horse racing that its champions-unlike any other great athletes-are worth more after they retire than at the peak of their form. When they retire they go to stud, which means that they are mated to 30 or 35 high-class mares every spring, in the hope that they will reproduce their own good qualities in their offspring...
...agree that places like Park Avenue with its multitude of sleek skyscrapers or the plaza at City Hall need a greater sense of vitality and human scale. However, Venturi looks forward to complete self-abasement in architecture. In the end perhaps he belongs in the same category as those high-class New Yorkers who hurried to fill their collections with Pop art in the early 60's. It is an elite that can glorify the imagery of the strip and appreciate its folksiness. In fact they can produce fancy books about it, but of course they would never live there...
...educated blacks, who have become completely assimilated into the Portuguese way of life, still face discrimination. A mulatto lawyer who works as legal counsel to a large foreign firm was turned away when he applied for an apartment in one of Luanda's high-class districts. Other educated blacks report their advancement frustrated by increasingly stiff barriers to promotion as they rise in the economic hierarchy...