Word: jumbo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Camp settings range from the spartan to the sublime. In Scotts Valley, Calif, Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari, will provide a rustic redwood scene where campers bring their own sleeping bags and mix VisiCalc with volleyball. The Computer Resort in Chico, Calif, sponsored by Texas Instruments, features jumbo-size steaks barbecued around a swimming pool. Princess Cruises in Los Angeles will coordinate 15 hours of classes with a ten-day sail that includes calls at Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta and Acapulco. Cost: $1,995. Prefer your silicon seminars on terra firma? For $879, Club Med provides Atari computers along with...
...compass from afar but repels and disorients it when approached." The more modest truth, for those with unwiggled needles, is that Penck's imagery is often so obscure that he seems to feel no special responsibility to the system he deploys. A lot of the paintings are mumbo jumbo, and their formal attributes can be remarkably trite-cliché figure-ground reversals, careless scrawly drawing...
...traveling light. So what if instead of the free, creamed-Styrofoam bits that most airlines serve for meals, we have to pay $6 for a boxed lunch? Leg room is minimal, every one of the 390 coach seats is occupied. But we are flying in a real 747 jumbo jet, and 6½ hours from now we will arrive in England...
...Northwest Orient jumbo jet was in its berth at Los Angeles International Airport, simmering down after the 13-hour flight from Manila. It had disgorged its captain, crew and 284 passengers, including the unbearably excited young Santiagos...
...double by Bruce Weller got things going in the Crimson eighth, and Eliott Rivera then reached on an error. Ed Farrell's pop up behind second baseman Paul Dawley wreaked havoc in the Jumbo outfield, and while three fielders gathered round the ball dropped in for a run-scoring single. Farrell would have been caught going for second, but an errant throw allowed him to reach the bag. A Vinnie Martelli single scored Rivera and Farrell...