Word: motel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like his master, exploits the sorry selection of freaks who have been recruited for the cast. Thus the audience is invited to have a good laugh at the gargoyle visage of Miles, chortle over Dallesandro's near-autistic blankness, and revel in the antics of an obese motel owner, and a schizophrenic lesbian. The lazy profanity and the grungy, grim quality of Heat's ambidextrous sexuality will be familiar and predictable to Warhol addicts. What is despicable about Heat is the way it both flaunts and mocks the grotesqueries of its cast, who seem generally neither to notice...
What is a "directional sign"? The House Public Works Committee defines it so broadly that almost every extant billboard could qualify: SLEEPY TIME, MOTEL, 12 MILES, for example, or SUPER GAS, NEXT RIGHT, Or STRAIGHT AHEAD FOR MAPLE SYRUP. But that is not the worst of it. There are now some 800,000 billboards-technically illegal under the beautification act's language -lining about 200,000 miles of rural roads. If Congress authorizes six outdoor signs per mile, the U.S. could legally have 1.2 million billboards in its future-a net addition of 400,000 signs...
...Phase motel, food and recreation concessions out of parks and relocate them outside park boundaries...
...indicted was a man who, TIME has learned, monitored and transcribed many of the Democrats' conversations from a Howard Johnson motel room across the street from the Watergate. He is Alfred Carleton Baldwin, a former FBI agent who served as a bodyguard for John Mitchell and his wife Martha when the former Attorney General headed the Re-Election Committee. Baldwin has explained his role in the Watergate affair to both the Justice Department and attorneys for the Democratic National Committee, and is expected to be the Government's key witness in the impending cases...
...typed the conversations and gave them to McCord, who converted them into memos that went, Baldwin contends, to the Re-Election Committee. Baldwin's own involvement became known because he had found the bugging, too, a bit boring, and for diversion had placed a call from the motel room to his home in West Haven, Conn. The motel kept a record of the call...