Word: buffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passionate music buff and audiophile, Lintgen (pronounced Lint-jen) has been regaling friends with the stunt for five years, ever since being challenged at a party and finding, to his surprise, that he could do it. He has also been put to the test by skeptical musicians and critics, as well as by James ("The Amazing") Randi, a professional magician who specializes in debunking claims of "paranormal" phenomena. Performing recently for a television crew from That's Incredible! he scored 20 for 20 in a demonstration set up by Temple University Musicologist Stimson Carrow...
...seems a match made in the winner's circle: Astaire is a longtime turf buff who once owned a stable of thoroughbreds and still reads the Daily Racing Form. Not for him the idle reveries of days and dances gone by. He never watches his old films, and shudders to think that they are among the most popular Late Show offerings. "When we did them I thought, 'O.K., that's over.' But here they are forever on TV. Two hundred years from now they'll be watching...
...attendants in orange-and-green plaid suits dispensed drinks from airline-style carts in the aisles, one railroad buff marveled: "Look, not even a ripple on my Beaujolais...
...Fleming's novel Moonraker, Multimillionaire Hugo Drax built himself a huge rocket to annihilate the city of London. He was foiled in his sinister strategems by James Bond, Agent 007. Now a businessman space buff named Gary Hudson is trying some rather far-out capitalism of his own, with a plan to start putting satellites into orbit from a private launching pad in Texas by 1983. So far, not even the U.S. Government is trying to stop...
...stopped momentarily to check the address and phone number of a woman he was planning to audition as part of his talent business. Given permission to search his 1974 Plymouth station wagon, officers found a four-band, two-way radio. Williams, an electronics and short-wave radio buff, had been arrested (but not convicted) in 1976 for impersonating a police officer, having equipped his car with red lights beneath the front grille. This time nothing was confiscated, and Williams was let go. He was, however, placed under surveillance and, according to some sources, an electronic tracking device was placed...