Word: listeners
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when Nitze gave Carter a hair-raising briefing on the Soviet threat in Plains, Ga., in July 1976. Recalling that meeting, the former President told TIME, "Nitze was typically know-it-all. He was arrogant and inflexible. His own ideas were sacred to him. He didn't seem to listen to others, and he had a doomsday approach." Carter barred him from consideration for a senior post...
...voice on the telephone. "Come and join us nasty sluts in 6,900 kinky taboos." This is dial-a-porn, sex over the phone wires, now as available in many states as the correct time. For a cost that can range from 20 cents to several dollars, callers can listen to recorded fantasies, some of them merely purple, some filled with the darker colors of sadomasochism, rape and bestiality. Since they first appeared in 1983, the dial-a-porn services have grown quickly. So has the frustration of parents who discover that their children have become clandestine callers, often running...
While the senior advisors say they are always happy to listen to constructive criticism, they add that they have no immediate plans to change the rooming system. "It's tough for an 18-year-old to know what is best. We take the harder route, not just listening to requests, but trying to stretch the person," Worth says...
...Listen, lunatic," I began calmly, "you are stark raving mad, and I will tell you why...Christies, UHS, Store 24, CVS, RIX, Sages..." For 10 minutes I rattled off names of toothpaste-selling stores that I could spit on from my room. I was dragged away amidst chants "Satan's Child!" and "Down with Rationality...
Wall Street and Broadcast News have enough acid wit to recall the sophisticated screwball comedies of the '30s, but their subject is greed, '80s style. Charlie Sheen and William Hurt play an avid stockbroker and a laid- back TV journalist who have nothing on their minds but headlong success. Listen to their gaudy argot ! Watch them in perpetual motion ! They' ll be back at Oscar time...