Word: tape
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Finally, a team official who had heard of my plight offered to let me use the team's direct line. The phone was in a pitch-black lockerroom. I could barely make out a piece of masking tape reading "Lynn Calls Only." Somehow, my story went through. Just five minutes over deadline. Just one minute before I was kicked out of the clubhouse...
Though they may differ over politics, taxes and who puts out the best video exercise tape, Los Angeles residents seldom disagree about traffic congestion: it is horrific and steadily growing worse. Help may be on the way. This week the Blue Line, the first leg of the city's first light rapid-transit rail system for commuters, will begin running from downtown to Long Beach, 20 miles to the south, with 22 stops along the way. Fare: a flat...
...couple of teen bands, wrote for gardening and porno magazines, worked in a doughnut shop and acquired the close-up view of life along the fault line that shapes and colors his songs. He and Ricketts had been making demos of a few tunes, and one of their tapes landed flukily at A&M Records. Boomtown was born out of that tape...
...addition to viewing the tape, the 18 jurors and alternates (who include 15 women) heard sordid stories of drug use and sexual escapades from Moore and Linda Creque Maynard, a friend of Barry's former pal convicted coke salesman Charles Lewis. Maynard described how Barry overpowered her and forced her to have intercourse with him at a Virgin Islands hotel in March 1988. Dixie Lee Hedrington, another Virgin Islands woman who claimed that she had been harassed by the mayor, testified that...
While the machines have been sold in Europe and Japan for more than two years, the U.S. debut has been delayed by controversy. Reason: the recorders can produce flawless copies of CDs, which has raised fears in the music industry of a surge in illegal "pirate" tapes. Sony and other electronics manufacturers have agreed to equip their DAT recorders with special circuitry to prevent the machines from making multiple copies of the same tape, but many record companies and artists want Congress to write this agreement into...