Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tiny town of Belgrade, Mont., a legislative committee was formed to ban pornographic materials inside the city limits. It so happens that there are no adult bookstores in Belgrade (pop. 3,200); the city elders just want to make sure that it's kept that...
...music or echo chambers. But the tape of Stephen King's The Mist is enhanced by what Simon & Schuster calls 3-D sound: voices are accompanied by rustling leaves, slithering tentacles, the flapping of prehistoric winds and the crawling of spiders as they descend on a small New England town. The latest Warner tapes are described by Deutsch as a "new version of old-time radio," complete with scores and sounds. Chaim Potok's The Chosen (Warner), read by Eli Wallach, is augmented by news broadcasts, crowd noises and mood music; Louis L'Amour's A Trail to the West...
...gala opening ceremony, Muscovites have matched American television audiences, empty seat for measly rating point. Once Turner hoped to make $20 million or $30 million on his inaugural games, but now he expects to lose $10 million or $15 million. "Moscow's just not a great sports town," Turner has decided. "Kind of like Atlanta...
...predawn darkness, Israeli naval officers spotted the rubber dinghy heading south toward the northern Israeli resort town of Nahariya. Ducking fire, the craft made for the Lebanese shore near the border, where the crew leaped onto the limestone rocks, scrambled to the cliffs above and deployed for battle. As illumination flares from Israeli helicopters lit up the area, the would-be invaders attacked Israeli troops with Soviet-made AK-47 assault rifles and hand grenades. When the shooting ended three hours later, two Israeli soldiers were dead and nine wounded. The bodies of four terrorists, one of them clad...
Lerner lived flamboyantly, buying an eight-bath Manhattan town house, vacationing in a rented villa on the Riviera, moving to London in his final years, partygoing everywhere. He wed eight times, to women ranging from actresses in his shows to a Newsweek reporter who interviewed him, fathered three daughters and a son. His divorces were sometimes messy, and he blamed the settlements for his financial problems: at his death, the Internal Revenue Service was seeking $1.4 million in back taxes and penalties...