Word: hotel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...story glass tower rises out of Warsaw's downtown like an intruder from another world. But it is a welcome one. The $65 million Warsaw Marriott, which is scheduled to open this week with a bash for 1,000 guests, will be the first major Western-operated hotel in Poland. Built in a joint venture with the Polish airline LOT and an Austrian construction company, the structure has 520 hotel rooms and office space for businesses. Amenities include a shopping mall, a swimming pool and satellite TV in every room...
Lodging rates range from $135 for a single room to $1,500 for the presidential suite. Foreigners must pay for their rooms in dollars, which will provide some much needed hard currency for Poland's government. The hotel hopes to attract swarms of Western business travelers, many of them from the U.S. Says William Tiefel, president of Marriott Hotels and Resorts: "A great many Polish Americans gave us a nudge in the right direction...
...took perverse pride in its reputation, well earned by the depravity of the carnal Barbary Coast, as "the wickedest city in the world." The evening of April 17, when the nonpareil Enrico Caruso sang in Carmen at the Grand Opera House before repairing to the fabulous Palace Hotel (a telephone and bath for every room, no less), was simply the glittering usual. As the populace drifted to sleep that night, all was well. Who could have dreamed that in only a few hours little would remain of this luminous metropolis but some blackened hills and charred ruins by the Golden...
Mayor Agnos disputed the accusations that the city does not normally provide adequate shelter. He said San Francisco already pays for 2900 hotel rooms a night and that the city needs convention and tourist revenue to finance a new $17 million program to create 3000 additional dwellings for the poor within a year...
...religiously -- up to two hours a day -- usually in the bedroom of his two-story Fifth Avenue penthouse. But even when he's working on location, he makes time for the horn. "There have been times when I would film all day long and wouldn't get to my hotel room until 10:30 at night," he says. "So I would get into bed and pull the quilt over my head so I wouldn't offend the neighbors." Missing a single day's practice, says Woody, makes him feel "absolutely consumed with guilt. You know, it's like when people...