Word: monica
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...former B-movie actor and Emmy-winning TV talk show host. His challenger is Democrat Carey Peck, 31, son of Gregory Peck and a former Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal and Senate aide. The set: a onetime Republican stronghold that includes the Los Angeles suburbs of Santa Monica, Venice and Marina del Rey. Voters run the gamut from Ronald Reagan to Jane Fonda. Allows a Republican official: "The district is eccentric...
...inflated restaurant prices, they often pick up dinner at gourmet shop takeout counters. At Pasta, Pasta, Pasta in Los Angeles, a family of four can walk out with a freshly made lasagna dinner for $8.95. A comparable meal in a restaurant could cost $50. Le Marmiton in Santa Monica sells provisions for the perfect picnic. Its Basket for Two Lovers, for example, includes cold sirloin in aspic and a salad of mushrooms in olive oil, garlic and lemon juice...
...company support--flying Laker Airways and carrying drums as hand baggage to cut down on costs. When the Police concluded their first proper American tour in Los Angeles in May, 1979, they turned down a $12,000 offer to play a second night at the 3,300-seat Santa Monica Civic in order to perform at Madame Wong's, a small restaurant in LA's Chinatown which only months before had changed its entertainment policy from Polynesian dancers to local unsigned bands...
...allegations that African news is slighted by the West, Lamb says that the amount of space devoted to Africa in American publications increased by 60 per cent last year and that Africa is now covered as well as other areas of the Third World. "The average housewife in Santa Monica does not want 30 per cent or even 5 per cent of her newspaper devoted to what's happening in Burundi," he adds, noting, that even Nigerians do not care to read about Burundi...
Lamb maintains that the way to get the Santa Monica housewife more interested in what happens in Africa is by appealing to Americans' sympathies with Africans...