Word: hiltons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earnest attempt to redress a festering grievance, not as film art, that The Hanoi Hilton deserves attention. Writer-Director Lionel Chetwynd's intention is to re-create the life endured in North Viet Nam's Hoa Lo prison by American POWs, in some cases for as long as eight years. Their lot consisted of systematic degradation, maddening isolation and the grinding $ waste of years, punctuated by episodes of ghastly pain. But, presented artlessly, this is not the stuff of compelling drama. There is not enough filth in the corners, not enough ambiguity when the movie shows prisoners resisting the pressure...
After students thundered through his lobby, the manager of the South Padre Hilton resort christened it the Gaza Strip and barricaded one entrance with potted plants. The Holiday Inn signed on 80 additional workers to deal with the overflow of revelers. The Sheraton, its $270-a-night suites jammed, brought in a security force from Dallas...
Activities directors from the various hotels crammed each day with a Club Med melange of crab races, scuba, and belly-flop and tanning contests. "Some of it's a little crazy," said Hilton Director Bill Parousis, smiling as he oversaw a two-mile-long line of students attempting to fashion the world's largest sand castle. "But it's keeping them out of trouble." One sign of the times: the fear of AIDS injected a note of caution to the usual sex-charged atmosphere of spring break. Comic Jay Leno drew cheers by noting that it was "National Condom Week...
...hordes mellowed out on the beer and sun, Hilton Hotel Manager Mark Hamner declared, "We're what Lauderdale was ten years ago." But others worried about how much more carnival the isle could stand. Pointed out Mayor Pinkerton: "We're not hostile to anyone...
Many older hotels that have mostly single rooms have set aside special office space for executives. A major part of the $1 billion renovation now / under way at the Hilton chain is the creation of business centers in most of its hotels. There, guests can use computer terminals, pick up business publications and check stock quotes on the Dow Jones financial wire. The Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles offers quick typing, photocopying and telex services and the use of a reference library at its business center...