Word: dial
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...went platinum last year. New voices are enriching the old melodic sound too. From Britain, Sade translated her Afro-exotic features and bossa-nova ballads into a boffo LP. Anita Baker poured the ache of jazz into pop and sold a couple million copies of Rapture. All over the dial, female singers are anchoring distinctive personalities to the sound of soul on silk. But none have hit the plangent chord struck by John and Cissy Houston's little girl...
...modern society without leaving a long, broad electronic trail. Computers record where you reside and work, how much money you make, the names of your children, your medical and psychiatric history, your creditworthiness and indebtedness, your arrest record, the number of bathrooms in your home, the phone numbers you dial and even the time you last used a street-corner bank machine...
...pollution." After all, the comedian's monologue about the "seven dirty words" provoked a 1978 Supreme Court case after a child heard those words on the radio 14 years ago. Had that boy earned the freedom to get his ears scorched as his father idly twisted the dial? (The court ruled that "patently offensive" language could be regulated on radio and TV.) Do other boys and girls have the freedom to tune in Midnight Blue, or to rent "documentary" snuff films like Faces of Death at their local video stores? Does any jerk with a movie camera have the freedom...
...president and general manager of Wrangler jeans, Odear quit to make "one-third the money" running a birding company called Bob-O-Link and its phone service, the North American Rare Bird Alert. For $25 a year, subscribing birders are given a code name and the right to dial into a tape, changed as often as three times a day, listing the whereabouts of all known rarities in North America...
...chaos. When Tokyo's Ueno Zoo had a blessed event last year, 270,000 people suggested names for the little cub. Tong Tong (Child) was the eventual choice, and 13,000 stood in line for the first glimpse of that particular child. Another 200,000 a day called the "Dial-a-Panda" hot line to hear him squealing...