Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...list of recorded volumes, now some 12,000 titles long, is as wide as a library. Some are only one tape: about an hour and a half. Others can go on for days. Listeners can wander from Hamlet and Moby Dick to Tough Marriage and Eat to Succeed. Although fiction is the most beguiling, self-help books are in greatest demand: The One Minute Manager, In Search of Excellence, 21 Days to Stop Smoking. On occasion, more calorific titles come into earshot: Totally Lewd Limericks, How to Make Love to a Man (prefaced by the warning "This tape contains explicit...
...environmentalists warn that the prairie is already deteriorating. Range Management Expert Dick Whetsell can point out areas where cattle have wiped out prairie flowers, including wild indigo and blazing stars, leadplants and horsemint, prairie clover and many species of sunflowers. It is still possible to find big bluestem grass that reaches shoulder-high, but old-timers like former Osage Tribal Council Member Bill Martin remember when the prairie grew "higher than a man riding a horse...
...honor but to baste him. America's favorite former anchorman had agreed to the $1,000-a-plate roast to raise funds for the newly created Cronkite Regents Chair in Communication at the University of Texas, Austin. Trouble was that try as they might, such luminaries as Dick Cavett, CBS's Andy Rooney and Beverly Sills could barely generate enough heat to toast, much less broil, kindly Uncle Walter. Then came Cronkite's turn, and he gave better than he got. On Rooney: "We've all had the experience of listening to him talk until an idea comes along...
...said. "In all the time I was there, I never met (Chairman) Grant Tinker." Carson, through a spokesman, said he was miffed that Rivers had negotiated a deal behind his back. NBC, meanwhile, pointed out that Rivers is joining a lengthy list of late-night hosts, including Merv Griffin, Dick Cavett and Alan Thicke, who have failed in the battle against Tonight. Said an NBC executive: "The cemetery is full of people who tried to dethrone Carson...
...Hays Gorey, David Halevy, Jerry Hannifin, Neil MacNeil, Johanna McGeary, Christopher Redman, Barrett Seaman, Alessandra Stanley, Bruce van Voorst, Gregory H. Wierzynski, John E. Yang New York: Bonnie Angelo, Joseph N. Boyce, Cathy Booth, Dean Brelis, Thomas McCarroll, Raji Samghabadi, Wayne Svoboda Boston: Robert Ajemian, Joelle Attinger, Timothy Loughran, Dick Thompson Chicago: Jack E. White, Barbara Dolan, Lee Griggs, J. Madeleine Nash, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: William J. Mitchell Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, B. Russell Leavitt, Don Winbush Houston: David S. Jackson Miami: Marcia Gauger Los Angeles: Dan Goodgame, Jonathan Beaty, Jon D. Hull, Melissa Ludtke, Michael Riley, Richard Woodbury, Denise...