Word: calif
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Colorist" [FASHION, July 19]: So men are going in for hair tipping a la Ricky Martin. Jeez, what's next? Pink fingernail polish? BOB MANDESON Glendale, Calif...
...showed up for my $500, three-hour Intro to Racing course at 9 in the morning at the Laguna Seca motor speedway in Monterey, Calif. Before the classroom lesson, the instructor, Andrew Shoen, sent me into a room to put on a red racing suit, a helmet, some driving gloves and a fake mustache. The mustache was my idea--it seems to be part of the NASCAR uniform. Much of what Andrew said made sense to me until he got to the double-clutch, heel-toe downshifting maneuver, which is the heart of racing technique. It was at this point...
DIED. SANDRA GOULD, 73, actress; in Burbank, Calif. A veteran of hundreds of radio programs and two dozen films, she is best remembered as Gladys Kravitz, the rarely welcome next-door neighbor on Bewitched, and as Betty Rubble's voice on The Flintstones...
Trembling, Lorrie Johnson begins to climb an extension ladder at Calamigos Ranch in Malibu, Calif. On the fifth rung, the 27-year-old traffic coordinator is asked if she has any neck injuries. "I was extremely frightened," she recalls later. An employee of the TV-ad-sales company Adlink, based in Los Angeles, Johnson has already walked a tightrope and shouted strings of nonsense words in a rhythm exercise to a group of colleagues today. Now she's being asked to make a "trust fall" backward off a ladder into the arms of a dozen virtual strangers. Taking a deep...
When Johnson and her fellow employees return to the office after a day of climbing, falling and even drumming--in an exercise lead by Village Music Circles of Santa Cruz, Calif.--the excitement still resonates. Even 10 days later, "People are walking through the halls high-fiving each other," says Johnson. "The atmosphere here is just joyous." To keep it that way, Adlink managers are planning another offsite next year. And they've invited the Orion Learning trainers to follow up with quarterly visits to Adlink headquarters, where they will use slogans and short exercises to refresh the staff...