Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that police were hiding somewhere in the small square, and would intervene. So they started to film, watching from a few yards as Andrews doused himself with lighter fluid and fumbled with matches. A flame started up on his blue jeans. The cameras rolled. The men watched. The flame spread across the victim's leg. The men continued to film...
Because the community of severely disabled students is small and closely knit, such impressions spread quickly. The University penalizes students when they seek help. Harvard's attitude, if not its policy, "tells disabled students 'You shouldn't have a right to equal opportunity. You're putting a burden on us and must accept inferior treatment,'" asserts Kronick...
There were also the inevitable social contretemps. Publisher Walter Annenberg, former U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, asked seven Americans, including Gerald and Betty Ford, to lunch with the royals at Sunnylands, his zillion-dollar spread near Palm Springs. "For every two friends you invite," Annenberg said, "you make 50 enemies." Hundreds of Southern California somebodies were upset about not being invited to Sunday night's 500-person bash on a Los Angeles movie sound stage. Nancy Reagan was hostess, and the President's pal Frank Sinatra rounded up the entertainment (Ed McMahon, Perry...
...From there it would spread out to include experience in production, directing and acting," he explained...
...portable cassette players. Now frustrated singers in Japan are turning to a far more elaborate audio apparatus. Known as karaoke, or empty orchestra, sets, they give users the feeling of being accompanied in song by their very own back-up band. First popular in small bars, karaoke sets quickly spread to the home. In 1982 sales of home units zoomed to $625 million, more than was spent in the U.S. on, for example, gas ranges...