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Courses taught: Spanish Ca, Cb...
Fortunately, we have VH1 to fill in the blanks. I Love the '70s (Aug. 18-22, 9 p.m. E.T.) is a 10-hour, year-by-year celebration of '70s trash culture: the Partridges and the Mod Squad, Underoos and Underalls, CB radios and est. It's the kind of empty-calorie video flypaper at which VH1 excels. Channel-flip across it and, try as you might to resist, say goodbye to the next two hours of your life. Filled out with reminiscences from every B-list celeb who ever came within 50 yds. of a VH1 camera (Ed's Michael...
...joins his brother on the ride to Venna’s college. As a result of Fuller’s playful influence, Lewis participates in a practical joke, pretending to be a woman and engaging in flirtatious conversation with a lonely truck driver via his car’s CB radio. When the trucker becomes aware of the prank, the joke is on Fuller and Lewis; the rest of the film follows Fuller, Lewis and Venna as they are stalked, hunted and tortured by the angry driver...
...Tuesday brings us the Conference Board's consumer confidence measure, an index distinguishable from the University of Michigan's consumer sentiment survey in two ways. The UM number is bi-monthly, the CB is monthly; and the UM is proprietary, which means some paying customer has to leak it to Reuters before we can hear about it, while the CB's numbers are free to all. (This explains why the UM number is considered slightly more credible, though for my money the reports on consumers' emotional states have been singularly useless for most of this year.) That said, folks...
...WORLD TRADE BRIDGE Rush hour has arrived. In the first five minutes, 27 trucks leave Mexico and pull into the Customs checkpoint. One by one, the drivers wait to be processed, reading Spanish newspapers and comic books or talking on their CB radios. Eleazar Camancho Luna, 21, listens instead to Latin disco music. He makes five crossings a day--$20 for full loads, $15 for empty trailers that need to be returned--and works six days a week. Not bad for a single guy, he says. The Mexican trucks are serviceable but spare: Luna's lacks the global-positioning systems...