Word: tap
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Their repertory includes such come-again classics as Big Bottom, Intravenus de Milo and The Sun Never Sweats. Until recently, the only way a fan could hear them was by buying a ticket to This Is Spinal Tap, a mock rockumentary that chronicles the exploits of a fictitious heavy-metal band. The group called Spinal Tap was only a joke, created for the film by Director Rob (All in the Family) Reiner, 39, and its three main members, played by Writer-Comedians Harry Shearer, 40, Christopher Guest, 36, and Michael McKean, 36. The movie has been such a stomping success...
...project are not nefarious. Blonsky and Des Noes contend that there are mostly hopeful possibilities for the ideas in semiotics helpful ideas for ways in which businesses can encourage new and important already accepted social trends. Since all of the analysts agree that the systems which semiotic advertising tap into have to exist-before the tapping can go on, they feel that semiotics is most likely only a positive study. And although Jardine notes that she can see a "grey area" where the discipline might be turned towards mind control, she concludes the person would have to be really twisted...
...were those 97 parents given the red carpet treatment by President Bok and University hall brass two weekends ago? Organizers said they were just showing Harvard off to people without any previous use to the school. But the real reason, according to sources, is to tap a new and potentially lucrative non-alumni source of fundraising--the nouveau riche parent...
Hart has been able to tap a vein of idealism that is a permanent feature of the American political landscape but accessible only to an occasional candidate. "I haven't felt as excited about a campaign since Kennedy," says James H. Kean, 42, an export trader and retired Marine colonel from Mercer Island, Wash. "The neat thing about Hart's campaign is that it's mostly volunteers. It's that corny American democracy...
...best customers. To qualify, users must have run up charges of at least $10,000 during the past year, and must have a record of prompt payment. Those eligible for a platinum card will receive services unavailable to other American Express customers. They will be able to tap 1,200 automatic tellers around the U.S. for cash advances of up to $1,000, for example, and to cash checks for as much as $10,000 at American Express offices worldwide...