Word: condo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same day, Saxon, 39, ran a hose from the exhaust pipe of his motorcycle into the sauna of his $685,000 condo in Venice, Calif. He apparently started the engine, then sat in jeans and socks while the sauna filled with carbon monoxide. When his body was found, so was a tape recording of a message to his estranged wife Susan. It explained that he had killed himself because he could not overcome his mounting business losses...
...razor-sharp cynicism of angular Richard Belzer and the loudly self-absorbed improvisations of Gilbert Gottfried, they came off as Not-Ready-Even-for-Late-Night Players. More promising are such regular features as Pipeline, a takeoff of Nightline, which last week examined a prison that had gone condo, and Flick of the Night, which overdubs old film clips with irreverent irrelevancies. The bookings may also improve. Already taped are interviews with less overexposed celebs like Lana Turner...
...years ago, the "condo vote" landed squarely behind Mary Allen Wilkes, the "condo candidate," but Wilkes fell short of the total number of votes required by Cambridge's Hare proportional voting system. When she finally was eliminated in the tallying, most of her votes transferred to Independents (i.e. voters who supported Wilkes first, backed Independents as second choices). A major beneficiary was incumbent City Councilor Thomas W. Danehy, whose North Cambridge neighborhood is experiencing gentrification similar to that in the eastern sector of the city...
Most observers attribute the transfers to Independents to a single issue--the city's anti-conversion ordinance, passed in August 1981. Without the issue this time around, they say there will probably be no condo candidate and the votes are likely to be up for grabs...
...condo bloc will vote in the absence of the particular condo candidate is unclear. "If they vote short-term anger, they will vote Independent," says Truesdell. "If they vote their long-term goals, they...