Word: carleen
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...time management. Before the Industrial Revolution, the exact time of day or year mattered only to those in specialized jobs, such as astrologers and sailors. For the rest, the day began at dawn, noon was when the sun was highest in the sky, and sunset wrapped things up. Says Carleen Stephens, who curated the Smithsonian show, in 1790 fewer than 10% of Americans had a clock of any kind in their homes, and most of those had no minute hand...
Thomas, 39, operator of the Amateur Action BBS in Milpitas, California, made headlines last year when he and his wife Carleen, 40, were indicted for transmitting pornographic material to a government agent in Tennessee. A jury in Memphis wasted little time ruling that the images--which included pictures of women having sex with animals--were obscene. But his case raised the tricky constitutional question of which locale's community standards should have been used to make that judgment: Tennessee's Bible Belt, California's Bay Area or the virtual community of cyberspace...
Rhythm and blues, like rock 'n' roll, was born and raised in America, with such influential exponents as Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye and Prince. Now Britain is giving rise to what might be called alternative R. and B. Performers such as Tricky, Portishead, singer Carleen Anderson, Seal and others have enlivened the accepted, sometimes constraining formats of R.-and-B. songs with offbeat rhythms and the kind of enigmatic lyrics one would usually expect from alternative rock. Says Des'ree: "I think British soul tends to be less conventional. American soul music seems to be going through a phase...
...California husband and wife convicted of transmitting pornography through an Internet computer bulletin board wound up with stiff sentences in federal court today, raising the possibility that people who put risque material online had better watch theobscenity standardsof any community that can access their system. Robert and Carleen Thomas, who founded the Amateur Action Bulletin Board System from Milpitas, Calif., received 37 and 30 months, respectively, but plan to appeal all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Their attorney has accused federal prosecutors of holding the trial in the Bible Belt -- Memphis, Tenn., where someone accessed the bulletin board...
...California husband and wife were found guilty in federal court of transmitting obscenities through an Internet computer bulletin board in Memphis, Tenn. "This case would never have gone to trial in California," said Richard Williams, defense attorney for Robert and Carleen Thomas, who founded the Amateur Action Bulletin Board System from Milpitas, Calif. He may be right, since the case was built on the issue of whether the sexually explicit material violated "community standards." The couple plan to appeal, and the case could make it to the Supreme Court...