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...emeritus of English at the University of Wisconsin, he began putting together a team of more than 100 fieldworkers and editors for his dictionary as long ago as 1963. Building on a trove of 40,000 folk words donated by the American Dialectic Society, he dispatched his researchers to tape more than 1,000 interviews with homeborn locals in all 50 states, working from a list of 1,847 questions. Sample: "When a firecracker doesn't go off and you break it in the middle and light the powder, you call it a ----." The answer in New York City: "Corpse...
...tape can be just as daunting in developing countries. Raul Velarde, a Mexican importer and exporter, complains that every time he brings in goods, he must get at least 15 signatures. He once got a permit to import zippers, but they arrived unassembled. They were held up in customs, Velarde says, because his permit did not cover "parts of zippers...
...before I would do it." Some observers of the music business believe that the RIAA acquiesced to label warnings because it did not want to ruffle feathers while lobbying for passage of a bill that would place a surcharge on the manufacture of home recording equipment and blank tape. Gortikov denies such charges and instead talks generally about "de facto censorship" and "the possible dilution of rights." Ling, now a consultant for the P.M.R.C., asserts that "any artist who is a true artist won't care about a rating." Singers and songwriters have other ideas. "I feel more akin...
...They're making such a big deal, it makes you wonder if anything's going to happen," said Amy Perry '86. Others were less complacent. Paul Gallagher '86 didn't bother to tape his windows on the 17th floor, but one of his roommates did--before seeking safer refuge at Lowell House...
Samuel A. Hoisington '87 and his roommates in Mather 423 used black electric tape to spell the word "PARTY" in their picture window. They said they had stockpiled five cases of beer for a hurricane party Friday night...