Word: dial
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late at night and you're starving. You dial 783-1565, but Babe's Pizza has just stopped delivering for the night. Sadly, you turn to your refrigerator, but upon opening it, you find two bottles of beer and some moldy cream cheese, but no bagels, and certainly...
...second mode is eclectic quotation from the image-haze, like a distracted viewer spinning the TV dial. Its leading practitioner in the U.S., among those born after 1950, is David Salle, 32. His main compositional device, putting emblems over a tangle of "transparent" figures, came straight from late Francis Picabia and perhaps from Salle's German contemporary Sigmar Polke. There is also a strong debt to earlier James Rosenquist. Salle draws, or rather traces, awkwardly and flatly. His imagery mimics the nullifying influence of TV, its promotion of derisive inertia as the hip way of seeing. Underneath, a congealed eroticism...
...step closer to one of the goals of the Bell breakup. That was to promote competition in the long- distance field by making it as easy to use new long-distance companies as it is to use AT&T. At present, an AT&T long-distance customer need only dial 1 plus the area code and local number. But in most areas, customers of competing networks must punch in as many as 22 numbers before reaching their party. Even when a connection is made, customers complain of erratic voice quality and noise, brought about sometimes by inferior transmission equipment...
Suddenly, the lawyers seem to be everywhere. On prime-time and late-night television, on radio, in the newspapers, the blast of advertising is increasingly tough to tune out. "Injuries -- call us first." "You may be entitled to money damages." "Dial L-A-W-Y-E-R-S." While traditional practitioners shudder, the U.S. Supreme Court is not flinching, and last week it seemed to guarantee that the barrage will become heavier...
...holiday. A thanksgiving Mass was held in Coconut Grove, and scores of jubilant Cuban Americans phoned radio stations to express their approval. On the 83rd anniversary of Cuba's independence, Radio Marti, a U.S.-sponsored anti-Castro radio service, kicked off its inaugural broadcast at 1180 on the AM dial with a short salutation, "Buenos dias, Cuba," followed by a gentle folk song...