Word: motel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years of covering the boom towns and boondocks of America for CBS's 60 Minutes, Morley Safer has found himself in more motel rooms than he would care to remember. But Safer, 48, has made a virtue of professional necessity: he winds up his days on the road by retiring to his rented rooms, switching on Johnny Carson ("very conducive") and pulling out his paintbox and brushes to record the place for posterity. Come Sept. 14, a score of watercolor and acrylic still lifes by the closet Matisse of Marriotts will go on display and sale at Manhattan...
Prosecutor Thomas Puccio started off with a 30-min. video tape of a meeting in August 1979 between Myers and Errichetti and an undercover agent who called himself "Tony Devito" at a motel near New York City's John F. Kennedy International Airport. On the tape, Myers boasted grandly of being able to fix the sheik's immigration problems, then gave some pungent advice: "I'm gonna tell you something real simple and short. Money talks in this business, and bullshit walks." As the agent handed over an envelope bulging with $50,000 in $100 bills...
...says Russell Rosen, manager of the Best Western Buccaneer Inn resort motel in Naples, Fla., by way of describing the biggest change in tourist travel patterns since Americans began flocking to the then inexpensive delights of Europe in the postwar years. From the manicured streets of Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., to the beaches of Nantucket and Cape Cod, the U.S. is playing host this summer to an army of overseas visitors that is expected to rise 19% above the 1979 level to a record 8.2 million people. While the ranks of such visitors have nearly doubled in the past five...
...assignment as the storm grew and evasive tactics became more common: find Billy. In midweek she set off for Plains, Ga., to where the President's brother had also headed. She almost caught him. "Alas," McGeary reports, "he ate breakfast at his regular table at the Best Western motel in nearby Americus, but the sight of a familiar TIME photographer, Jay Leviton, had alerted Billy to the press hunt. He zoomed out of the motel and hasn't been seen here since." McGeary staked out Billy's gas station in Plains and his house 20 miles...
...machine. Then there is Susan Saint James, trying to raise the children on a too-small alimony check. She wants to marry an agreeable fellow who is also broke. Too discreet to sleep together in her bedroom, where the children might discover them, and too poor to hire a motel room, they must cohabit in her station wagon, parked in the garage...