Word: ricks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hundred yards from the stage, in an area known as the Village, a man named Ellisdee Rick is selling an "LSD Flight Simulator," a kaleidoscope- like device that straps on over the eyes: "It's the ultimate binocular looking into the neuroverse. It will probably replace the frisbee, and has already replaced Rubik's Cube." In the speaker's tent, a more serious exploration of the mind is under way as teenage audience members step onto a central stage and debate. "Utah is a hypocritical state." "You got the choice before you get pregnant." "If it's wrong...
...Marin County town of San Rafael, north of San Francisco, "every day, a few hundred day laborers line the city streets," says Rick Oltman, leader of the Marin Immigration Reform Association. "They come here and live 15 or 20 in an apartment and work one day a week." Last week the city council shelved a plan to build a $175,000 job center for the day laborers. The center, says Oltman, "would just encourage more to come here...
...subscription to Ranger Rick having long since lapsed, Read reasoned that the use of the term "water buffalo" was meant as a racial slur since a water buffalo is "a large black animal that lives in Africa." Pity for Read that water buffalo are found in Asia and not Africa...
...will be permitted to build two casinos in Connecticut that will mix betting with moviegoing, ice skating and line dancing. And his next project in Las Vegas will envelop gambling inside a 160-acre resort that will include a golf course, intimate villages, a replica of Rick's Cafe Americain (the gambling joint from the movie Casablanca,) and a 14-acre lake where visitors can water- ski during the day and watch a laser show at night...
Undaunted, the company recently opened Nike Sports Management, a division that offers athletes "total management contracts," including endorsements, career guidance and marketing advice. The first three to sign: basketball stars Alonzo Mourning and Harold Miner and former Notre Dame quarterback Rick Mirer. Under the deal, Nike represents Mourning, for example, in nearly every aspect of his life, right down to finding him a townhouse (a Nike representative had the shower heads and counters raised for the 6-ft. 10-in. player), choosing what soda he drinks and telling him where to buy his stereo equipment...