Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...distressed to hear of the proposed ban on Porky Pig. As a lifelong stutterer, I have always looked up to Porky as the one institution in America that stutters. The greatest menace to stutterers today is the automatic telephone answering device. It could run out of tape before we get our message across...
...received death threats-and been socked in the face with a banana cream pie. When she showed up in Manhattan to tape an appearance for the Today show, NBC was so worried for her safety that guards spirited her out of the building after the performance. She called off a press conference at the nearby Hilton Hotel because of warnings that hostile demonstrators would be in the streets. Appearing in St. Petersburg, Fla., last week, she had to change hotels for security reasons. The victim is Singer Anita Bryant, 37; her tormentors are radical gay activists, mostly male; and their...
...federal officials that he could identify the killers of Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa. Missing for two years, Hoffa presumably was rubbed out by members of the Genovese family for disrupting lucrative deals it had developed with the Teamsters since 1967. Gallina informed the Feds that he had hidden a tape-recorded account of the killing that included the voices of mobsters who had a hand in it. He said Hoffa's body could be found from information on the tape...
PARTICULARLY AMUSING is the use of props. During the stock market scene, as the quartet bewails the fickleness of finances, Cookie Harlin sings the words from the ticker tape. Later on, the group marches out in their ties and tails, then cavorts around the stage in an outrageous array of feathers and jewels--gaudy enough to make Flo Ziegfeld envious...
...make sense out of Leyland's disorganized management structure. He succeeds Sir Richard Dobson, who hastened his own departure by making injudicious remarks about Leyland "bribing Wogs"-a reference to allegations of overseas payoffs by Leyland. Dobson spoke at a private dinner party, but a guest tape-recorded his comments, and they were later published...