Word: fats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Miami dance hall, an 80-year-old retired industrialist and his 60-year-old wife shuffle their feet and tap their toes as energetically as the real estate salesman, the undertaker, the fat lady and the others in their class. In a steamy Manhattan studio,' an eleven-year-old boy wearing a Captain America sweatshirt stomps out a machine-gun-like rat-a-tat tap routine; near by, the blonde 40-plus winner of Coney Island's Glamorous Grandma contest, in black-and-white-checked hot pants, sharpens her rhythm...
...next year's budget range up to the same figure-if the economy does not substantially improve. Aside from its economic effects, the deficit gives Nixon a negative political credit rating, particularly among the many Republicans who disapprove of unbalanced budgets. If the fat deficits continue, says one presidential counselor, they "could make Lyndon Johnson look like a fiscal conservative...
...most common bootleg victims are front-running artists: Bob Dylan, The Band, Jefferson Airplane-any star or group whose name alone is worth fat sales. The practice has long been a problem (Frank Sinatra records were bootlegged in the '40s), but technology has only recently made it attractive to young entrepreneurs. A variety of tape copiers, from $40 recorders to $100,000 stereo duplicating systems, can turn out cartridges, cassettes or reel-to-reel tapes, usually in less time than it takes to listen to them. Music-trade publications and underground newspapers carry ads for the machines, and many...
...without having to go through the bureaucracy of the music industry. The romantic aspect is the most compelling attraction. People can't go fight in the Spanish civil war any more, and the day of the desperado, of Robin Hood, is over. So they strike out at the fat cats of the music companies this way. It's an existential romantic trip...
Rising costs now squeeze everyone from chancellor to freshman, at every place from mighty Harvard to lowly Podunk. Because many universities had grown fat and pampered, the first effects of the new austerity have been largely positive. Grandiose construction plans, harebrained experiments and trivial research-all these are being shelved or abolished. But only so much efficiency can be wrung out of a basically inefficient system without altering its nature...