Word: spruced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reality, as recalled in his few drab ad tentative attempts at scenes of life in Union Square made in the early forties. So Porter packed up his easel and relocated to the posh seashore resort town of Southampton, Long Island, spending the summers at a vacation home in Great Spruce Head. Maine, In these WASPy environs, he felt at home with everything from the foliage to the patio furniture...
...surprisingly, the business community and some townsfolk, who think Aspen (pop. 7,620) has been too complacent in the face of growing competition, want to spruce it up and launch a promotional campaign. Says Author Leon Uris, a 20-year resident: "We've been ho-humming it for years. We have to get competitive." But other residents, who want to preserve Aspen's small-town charm, are disturbed by calls for mass marketing. "We're a mature resort with a solid product," says Lodge Owner Allan Blomquist. "We don't need flamboyant hype...
...Nicaraguan exile groups that are opposed to the leftist Sandinista regime in Managua. When leaders of the F.D.N. showed up at a Fort Lauderdale resort hotel last week, the conclave turned out to be about as clandestine as a charity clambake. The real purpose of the get-together: to spruce up the F.D.N.'s public image in a bid to widen its base of support in the U.S. and Central America...
...Advocate's current executive board, while tipping its hat to tradition, is trying to spruce up the magazine in many ways. By experimenting with its format, board members say they hope to appeal to a somewhat broader readership. With certain changes in administrative organization, they believe the Advocate may surmount the financial troubles that have proved so debilitating in the past. And by attempting to draw more people into the building itself, they hope to help it become more of a focal point for the Harvard literary community...
...Gordons and those who want to save the Garden Court say it could be the center of a revitalized Hollywood. Others would prefer a shiny new office building to spruce up the neighborhood. Meanwhile the battle goes on, as the Gordon Group continues its legal fight that in the words of Bill Gordon's lawyer son Peter, "does justice to the building's façade-it's labyrinthine and byzantine." Says his weary father: "It's a nightmare. More than a nightmare...