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basket house

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A cafe or similar establishment where musical performances are given and the performers are then paid with money placed in a basket by members of the audience.

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"When Mitt Romney arrived, Massachusetts was an economic basket house," Mr. Fehrnstrom said on ABC's "This Week" program on Sunday.

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"I played a lot of these basket houses," he says, "and one of the things I learned was: Never go there after Richie Havens.

The result, a rectangular steel box the size of a Smart car, supporting a forty-foot mast and a hydraulic boom arm attached by six strands of wire rope to a telescopic cleaning basket, houses a computer that monitors sixty-seven electromechanical safety sensors and switches, and runs around the roof of the Hearst Tower on four hundred and twenty feet of elevated steel track.

The son of a Viennese psychoanalyst, Mr. Bromberg grew up in Tarrytown, N.Y., studied with the Rev. Gary Davis, a blind blues and gospel singer, and dropped out of Columbia University, where he was studying music, to play in the "basket houses" in Greenwich Village.

"The result, a rectangular steel box the size of a Smart car, supporting a 40-foot mast and a hydraulic boom arm attached by six strands of wire rope to a telescopic cleaning basket, houses a computer that monitors 67 electromechanical safety sensors and switches, and runs around the roof of the Hearst Tower on 420 feet of elevated steel track," the magazine reported.

Most were basket houses, with the performers getting a share of the evening's take.

Unlike the Symplicity catheter, the EnligHTN catheter (St. Jude Medical) consisted of an expandable electrode basket housing four Platinum-Iridium-based electrodes.

California Indians "contributed to the construction of a rich network of habitats that provided a cornucopia of foods, medicines, and raw materials for clothing, baskets, houses, dance regalia, and other cultural objects" by "enhancing the productivity of grasslands, scrub stands, oak woodlands, conifer forests, and mountain meadows" (Lightfoot and Parrish 2009).

A carafe of water arrives instantly, along with a basket of house-baked bread.

Small pleasures include free seltzer water, a basket of house-made breads and the amuse-bouche — on our visits, two deeply flavored dairy-based soups, broccoli and onion.

The meal gets off to a good start with a giveaway of a generous basket of house-made thin-sliced fried plantains, slightly salty, pleasantly starchy and with a sour-cream-based dipping sauce sparked with olives, hot red pepper and garlic.

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