Word: bulbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...freshman, who asked not to be identified, said a man approached her as she left the Science Center and that he made obscene gestures to her while following her home. She added that the light bulb above her entry door was burnt out, and that on reaching the door she had trouble opening it quickly...
...recalls working with Armani in "an office no bigger than 14 by 14," crowded with one huge table and a few cane chairs used for everything from long business conferences to quick lunches. Bergdorf's Mello remembers "buying a collection of Armani's under a bare light bulb in a tiny hotel room. We could hardly see the colors, so he took the lamp shade off." In 1975, when the Giorgio Armani Co. was founded, it had a working capital of $10,000 and one receptionist, a student whom, Galeotti recalls, "we could pay so little...
...small camping tent. He was never allowed to get up or move around the apartment outside the tent. He washed himself with a pail of water brought to him once a week, and was supplied with a chemical toilet. His captors hung a white 40-watt light bulb in the tent during what Dozier took to be daytime, and replaced it with a blue 40-watt bulb, presumably at night. His daily regimen included exercising as best he could inside the tent, occasionally reading (George Orwell's 1984, clippings from TIME and various newspapers about his abduction), playing solitaire...
...good to be true. As indeed it is. The largest such U.S.-based operation is a fly-by-night encampment run by Jorge Gonzalez, 50, a Cuban exile who is the head of something called the Inter-American Defense Force. Gonzalez, whose Spanish nickname Bombillo translates as light bulb, boasts that he is training "thousands" of anti-Sandinista Nicaraguans in South Florida. But that claim is more wishfulness than military threat, as TIME Caribbean Bureau Chief William McWhirter discovered on a tour of Gonzalez's training center...
...have been a technological breakthrough that made cat tending less onerous and fueled all this attention. Explains one close observer of the animal universe, Boston Veterinarian Jean Holzworth: "When you talk about convenience, the advent of cat litter is comparable to the invention of the electric light bulb." Litter boxes are now big-selling staples in pet stores. They cost from $2.50 to $34.95. Some of them are kick-proof and odor-proof. The latest behavior-modification device is Kitty Whiz, a potty trainer that purportedly teaches Puss to use the bathroom toilet. Cost...