Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there was San Diego Bus Fleet Owner Jack Haberstroh's idea: he charges no fares on his buses, but makes a profit nonetheless by turning each vehicle into a rolling advertising medium that is not only completely slathered with ads, inside and out, but also subjects passengers to tape-recorded pop music-and commercials...
...Bjoner by England's Anna Green-did not seem overly happy about the English. One would think that an American would love the idea. Not so. Says Tyl, one of several singers who appeared in both versions: "Any American who has learned a role in German has two tapes going in his mind-the original and the English he thinks by. When you throw in a third tape [the Porter], man, you've got trouble...
...August of last year, Bennett and one of the dancers, Nicholas Dante, had converted the tape into a five-hour play with no music. They put it on in workshop but decided it was too heavy. Bennett then called in his old friend and dance arranger, Marvin Hamlisch, who arranged the Oscar-winning score for The Sting. "I wanted an opera-ballet," Bennett explains. "The music only stops three times in the whole show. I wanted the music to stop for talk rather than a show where everyone talks, and then they sing and dance...
...movie won't think of a great white shark when he puts his toe in the ocean." Vacationers are in fact flocking in ever greater numbers to the seashore. As for the jammed local moviehouses, they are treacherously playing on nerves. One Cape Cod theater runs a telephone tape that announces, "Jaws is playing. See it before you go swimming." Shark jokes are all black; in an interview with "Hollywood's No. 1 star" on the Tonight Show, Johnny Carson asked a foam rubber great white, "How do you keep your teeth clean?" Snapped the shark: "I swallow...
...food costs. In the 1950s a carload of Bartlett pears loaded in Sacramento reached New York in 6½ days; today the journey often takes from nine to eleven days. Another cost fattener: Federal Trade Commission rules on discounting, required by the Robinson-Patman Act, involve so much red tape that they discourage wholesalers from giving price breaks to supermarkets that place large orders. The aim is to help protect small stores, which account for two-thirds of the nation's 200,000 grocery outlets, from price competition...