Word: octopus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tracking down the best goods and services offered in the U.S. The entries in his list book, America's Best! 100 (Sterling; $9.95), range from airports (Tampa, of course) to zoos (San Diego, naturally). In between, he roves entertainingly, and often eruditely, through such recondite subjects as octopus-ink paintings, spumoni fudge and specialty cement. For the list mavin with less esoteric tastes, Luongo offers his verdicts on the best available wines, foods, hotels, shops and salmon waters, as well as just about everything else enlistable from banana ice cream to bouillabaisse, pizza to personal submarines, johnnycakes to jogging...
...names Whiteside calls people are intermingled with the "names" who call. "Gertrude Stein" phones from Paris. "Admiral Byrd" sends along some penguins from the South Pole, and "William Beebe" an octopus. Swift visits are paid by "Harpo Marx," played by Leonard Frey, and "Gertrude Lawrence" - a performance by Carrie Nye that rates 10 on a Richter scale for actressy amorous bitchiness...
Jimmy Carter's drive to free the nation's transportation system from the octopus of federal regulation is rolling. Airlines were deregulated two years ago, and a bill to unfetter the railroads is expected to pass Congress later this summer. Last week the President put his signature on the Motor Carrier Act of 1980, which will begin dismantling 45 years of federal controls over the trucking industry. About 17,000 carriers, or 40% of the business, will be directly affected. The rest of the industry is unregulated because it hauls items not subject to controls, like unprocessed agricultural...
Characterizing MIT as an "octopus bent on the destruction of our neighborhood," Horowitz called on the city council to help "keep that octopus from growing larger...
Almost a decade ago, Pink Floyd played a 2½-hr. concert on the shores of the Crystal Palace pond in London. To enhance their trippy riffs and overweening crescendos, the Pinkies brought on a 50-ft. inflatable octopus and detonated a fireworks display. By the time of the first encore, all the fish in the lake had died, victims of the band's cosmic boom and crushing decibels...