Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is the summer of sexual perversity for Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theatre. First, they gave us some from David Mamet, Chicago-style. Now, Eric Oleson and the rest of the HRST troupe are presenting Euripides' tale of madness, divine vengeance and sexual abandon. Titillation, at least, seems guaranteed...
...summers ago, in 1977, my friend Sue called the hotel in Chicago where the Red Sox were staying on road trip. She asked for Butch Hobson's room. She talked to Butch Hobson. I was jealous, but never stopped to question why an 11-year-old could carry on a perfectly normal conversation with an older man she had never met, halfway across the country...
...scene replayed thousands of times each evening in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and burgeoning suburbs nationwide, the last guests for a 7:30 dinner straggle in 40 minutes late, muttering their astonishment -- but not, significantly, their apologies -- that it took them 90 minutes to drive ten miles. Their woes inevitably inspire the other guests to a round of competitive traffic horror stories that continue well into the entree...
...possible to transform an auto into a slow-rolling "home away from home." Larry Schreiner, a free-lance reporter for a Chicago radio station and several local TV stations, often lives and works in his Mercedes 560 SEL. "I have everything I need," says Schreiner, whose longest continuous stretch on wheels was 36 hours. His office supplies include five two-way radios, two cellular phones, one headset (so he can talk on radio shows while working on videotapes), two video cameras and three video recorders. That's not all. In the trunk Schreiner keeps batteries, lighting equipment, three still cameras...
...nest-building commuters, the place to go is Chicago's Warshawsky & Co., which bills itself as the largest auto parts and accessory store in the world. It offers in-dash televisions ($300), compact-disc adapters, orthopedic seat cushions, heated seats for winter, and computers with cruise control and estimated time of arrival (up to $149). Upscale drivers install $2,000 car phones (although in Los Angeles, where there are 65,000 subscribers, airwaves are jammed in rush hours). Ordinary folk can ape "techie" drivers by ordering an imitation antenna from Warshawsky for a mere...