Word: motel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When FBI agents arrested an armed-robbery suspect after a shootout in a Portland, Ore., motel last month, they got a bigger break than they realized at the time. Last week FBI ballistics experts confirmed that among the weapons found in Suspect Gary Lee Yarbrough's home in Sandpoint, Idaho, was the 45-cal. mac-10 submachine pistol used last June to murder Alan Berg, a combative and controversial Denver radio talk-show host. Yarbrough denied the killing, insisting that he was given the weapon after the shooting. At week's end he had not been charged...
...small explosion sparks a fire within a local laboratory, releasing half a liter of toxic nerve gas agents through a broken window into the atmosphere. A warm summer's breeze carries the cloud of nerve gas past a nearby highway, motel, bowling alley, playground and disco. In a matter of minutes, several hundred unsuspecting people are subject to the devastating effects of toxic substances...
Earlier there had been a more brutal awakening. While on vacation in Acapulco after college, she met a local doctor who invited her out to dinner after he made some house calls. The last stop, says Allred, was a motel, where the man pulled a gun and raped her. She says she nearly died after a subsequent illegal abortion...
...endlessly to Madison that "his elk" are grazing on their cattle pastures. In winter they blame him when hungry elk and deer are busting their fences and devouring their haystacks. "It's not that folks don't like Jeff personally," says Herb Hughley, who operates the Valley Motel on Highway 13, which runs through Meeker. "But they don't like bureaucrats in Denver making laws about what they can and cannot do here...
...automobile won the public, though, its impact began to lose the artists. Diego Rivera, in his great murals Detroit Industry, showed the dehumanizing effects of assembly-line labor. So did Charlie Chaplin in his film Modern Times. Edward Hopper in Western Motel and similar paintings revealed the sterility of an emerging roadside culture. The architects, sympathetic to the potentials of technology, had a different view...