Word: tape
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ever suspicious of regulatory red tape, conservatives might object to user fees and certification requirements as unwarranted intrusions into the pocketbooks and lives of Harvard students, the latest steps down the path of administrative micromanagement that began with randomization...
...come was glimpsed clearly on the night before Bush's feigned distress. Minutes after Bill Clinton won the New York food fight last Tuesday, Republican Party chairman Rich Bond gleefully recalled Jerry Brown's characterization of Clinton as "the prince of sleaze." They've "got them all on tape," says Bond. "Paul Tsongas calling Clinton a 'Pander Bear'; Ed Koch saying, 'It happens that Bill Clinton has no credibility'; Mario Cuomo calling Clinton's middle-class tax cut 'a joke.' We've got 'em, and you'll be seeing 'em. It ain't gonna be pretty...
...hate the alternative, techno-pop music that this tape is, then go buy the latest New Kids release. But if you lean toward the alternative side or are just looking for something new, this album packs some welcome surprises...
BOOKS Studs Terkel, the tape recorder's best friend, deals with racism...
...newest book, Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel About the American Obsession (New Press; 403 pages; $24.95). Even the liberal whites in its pages admit to deepening fears and animosity toward the growing urban black underclass. Most of the blacks who talked into Terkel's tape recorder do not think they will ever be five-fifths American. Joseph Lattimore, 50, a Chicago insurance broker, describes himself as typical. "Being black in America is like being forced to wear ill-fitting shoes," he says. "Some people can bear the uncomfort more than others. Some people can block it from...