Word: lande
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vote of 8-1, the council passed one city order that calls for setting aside the disputed territory as Cambridge park land and another that requests City Manager James L. Sullivan consider using the land for "a high school track or for other recreational purposes...
...sets. One of the biggest manufacturers, Hy-Gain Electronics Corp. (maker of Betty Ford's rig), reported that 1976 first-quarter sales quintupled those for the same period in 1975. A $2.95 paperback CB dictionary has sold more than a quarter of a million copies. "CB Land," as enthusiasts call it, is served by a babel of newspapers, magazines, thousands of clubs and a lobby in Washington. The cult's most celebrated recent convert after Betty Ford is Snoopy, who has found solace with CB in the Peanuts strip...
...social and economic background of CBers is changing rapidly. Once populated mostly by truckers and blue-collar hobbyists, CB land is attracting growing numbers of businessmen and middle-class families who use the sets for safety and information. CB is also a "bodacious" (in CB lingo, super, fantastic) way of relieving freeway tedium-so much so that truckers' use of amphetamines has declined drastically in recent years. Ordinary drivers tend to be as evangelistic about the medium as oldtime gear jammers. "When I'm on the road these days," says New York Businessman Lawrence LeKashman...
Potty Mouths. The real CB land has more sinister denizens. Police departments across the country report that mobile radios are being used increasingly in holdups and burglaries. CB sets themselves have become the favorite target of street thieves; 500 CB thefts were reported in Los Angeles during a three-month period. Game poachers use CB to outwit conservation officers. Though the California department of fish and game frequently changes its code, admits one officer, "poachers seem to know what we're doing before we do." Prostitutes ("pavement princesses") who plug their charms on CB have become so common that...
...consciousness. Argento's orchestral score, in a masterly interpretation by Philip Brunelle, can be as gruff as Strauss at one moment, as ethereal as Debussy the next, sometimes underlining the drama at hand while simultaneously anticipating events to come. Most important, Argento can write for the voice. The land beyond, a second-act aria for Poe's wife Virginia, is almost Mozartean in its poignant simplicity. Virginia died of consumption at 24. In the opera she is resurrected, but after singing her aria, she dies again. It is an enviable role that allows the soprano to die more...