Word: horned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...running gasoline engines. Although the London cabs have an ungainly body style, passengers appreciate their contour seats, high roofs and wide doors. Says one American visitor to Jidda: "One sits high in the back, with handles to grasp as the driver works his way through the city's horn-honking, madcap traffic...
...Atlantic five years ago in his great silver Double Eagle II; early this summer he and Partner Don Ida crashed and died in Bavaria during a balloon race. In 1978 a New Zealander named Naomi James, 34, became the first woman to circumnavigate the world alone via Cape Horn, only a brief time after learning sailing so that she could share an interest with her yachtsman husband Rob. She retired from competitive sailing to raise a family, and last March her first child, a daughter, was born. Eleven days earlier, Rob had drowned in a yachting accident...
...hopes that the new sources of money for program development from the three networks will help diversify TV's offerings. But in Hollywood, independent producers shuddered at the commission's actions. Alan Horn, president of Norman Lear's Embassy Communications, feared that the ruling meant that new shows would once again be dictated by the networks. Said he: "The networks will be even more powerful tomorrow than they are today." He recalled that even so small an issue as whether Archie Bunker should be seen diapering his grandson had been contested by CBS. Viewers saw Archie change...
...records, and yes, the Police can sell out Shea Stadium. But Bowie, in many ways, can meet them and match them both, and offer something else too. A Bowie concert, shorn of excessive theatrics, is a raved-up tutorial in rock-'n'-roll survival, a history lesson with a horn section and one of the best bands this side of E Street. This show is about the fall and rise of David Bowie. A little regeneration and a little dancing in the aisles, a touch of optimism and a double dose of rhythm and blues and, as the man himself...
...between the two antic entertainers is like a half nelson after a series of handshakes. Aykroyd's attachment to his friend, dead of a drug over dose in 1982, sometimes edges close to hysteria: "Whenever Danny Aykroyd drives by [Belushi's] graveyard, he always honks his car horn - long and loud - on the good chance that somewhere, somehow, in some form, John can hear...