Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Crimson (1-1 overall) will get some answers this weekend when it competes in the Duke Dial Classic at Cameron Indoor Stadium in Durham, N.C. The tournament begins this afternoon at 1:00 p.m. with a top-twenty showdown between the Huskies (1-1) and the Boilermakers (1-0), followed by a game featuring Harvard and Duke...
...Callers to 1-800-WANT-POT got exactly what they wanted -- $50 envelopes containing one-eighth of an ounce of marijuana delivered by bicycle to Manhattan street corners. The service was allegedly the brainchild of Michael Cesar, 48, a felon who formerly ran a similar service under the name DIAL-A- JOINT. Now Cesar faces serious time in a joint of a different kind. Last week he was arrested by New York City narcotics officers at his Greenwich Village comic-book shop -- where cops on the scene noticed a conspicuous absence of comic books -- and charged with possession of reefer...
...sampling of recorded ditties that callers hear when they dial VIPs and are put on hold...
...never failed to get back to me and hecertainly does seem to care," says John Nash, astudent who often calls Dial-a-menu with questionson the food content. "Nothing has actually beenchanged but they have at least taken it intoconsideration...
...comedy glut? Or, more likely, are viewers simply recoiling against network packaging that has grown so boringly rote and predictable that all signs of life have drained out? If so, relief is at hand: increasingly offbeat shows are cropping up in out-of-the-way places on the dial. Some deserve their obscurity. Others might shrivel in the glare of too much mass-audience attention. But what they all share is an eccentric, homemade, try-anything quality...