Word: tape
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Candeloro fancies himself a young Corleone. His approach to a program is freer-than-freestyle, and he is the most crowd-pleasing male skater to come along since Browning, radiating a cheeky sense of the ridiculous. At one point Candeloro's answering-machine tape told callers to leave a message because he might be with a beautiful young woman. At the moment he sports a tiny cross in his ear, "so small," he says with relish, "the judges...
...broadcast at the Grille was actually intended for a Montreal television station, CFTM CBS which is airing the Olympics did not show the competition live, waiting for a tape delay broadcast in prime time...
...what is called the "War Against Women" -- a war that is of course atrocious because women are . . . helpless? The War Against Men, on the other hand, is what men have coming to them, and high time. When women read about male bashing, the words give me a break ticker-tape across their foreheads...
...superannuated Weltenschauung onto current political and social realities. The visceral disdain for the letters CIA--or indeed the entire military establishment--has reached comic dimensions on our campus, a vestige of a political sensibility that in the rest of the country has gone the way of the eight-track tape...
...victim chic has found its finest expression in Lyle and Erik Menendez. The brothers admitted what they had done only when the existence of a tape their psychologist had secretly made became known. On it they said they had killed their parents because it was what was best for their mother, who had been cheated on by her husband. So what could the jury have made of the fact that they reloaded to shoot her point-blank in the face when she refused to quit crawling away...