Word: got
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign, some 2.5 million rapsters have rung up Jazzy Jeff and friend since the debut of their two- minute talkfest last June. The cost: $2 for the first minute, 45 cents a minute thereafter. Other hot lines soon followed. Now word of Phone Programs' success has got around. "People from every walk of music are coming to us," says V.P. Cory Eisner...
...Abbott has pitched five innings, allowing three hits and one run, striking out six (including A's terror Jose Canseco). One double-play ball got bollixed in his mitt, but he is under way. "You do wonder," he says, "if you're going to be the guy who was billed to make it, who never did, or if you're going to look back someday and say, 'This is where it all began.' But I've always dreamed, 'What if this happens,' and it always has. I've been lucky...
...Soviet delegation: "The very first hours witnessed an exchange of positions, rather than recriminations." Baker and Shevardnadze boosted optimism by setting a May date in Moscow to discuss resumption of Strategic Arms Reduction Talks and explore the timing of a superpower summit. But, cautions Baker, "we've got some hard bargaining ahead...
That set the tone for the showdown. U.S. Transportation Secretary Samuel Skinner, announcing that President Bush refused to intervene in the Eastern strike, could not resist a verbal shiv of his own. "Mr. Lorenzo," he said, "has obviously not got the trust and admiration of his employees." As unionists burned an effigy of the Texas Air chairman, their leaders laid ambitious plans to expand the strike through a series of secondary boycotts that would tie up commuter traffic across the country -- a nightmare that was averted when judges in several cities slapped temporary restraining orders on strikes of intercity rail...
They should have filmed Tama Janowitz's publicity campaign. It was a lot more entertaining, and possibly more sociologically edifying, than Slaves of New York, the collection of short stories about the downtown art scene that book flacks so heedlessly hyped to bestsellerdom. Alas, the movie people got stuck with the book and with its author as screenwriter. And now the public is stuck with a movie that compares rather unfavorably to periodontal work in amusement value...