Word: taping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tape's still running...
...freeways. The colossal traffic jams that planners feared never developed. Tons of rubble from collapsed walls and shattered windows had been hauled off by a fleet of dump trucks that came from as far away as Palo Alto (35 miles). Virtually all San Francisco streets were open, though yellow tape still closed off hundreds of sidewalks adjacent to cracked buildings that might yet collapse. The World Series resumed Friday night at Candlestick Park, and even the tourist business showed signs of revival. To prepare for a meeting of 5,000 plastic surgeons, the Moscone Convention Center was forced last week...
Shortly after the officers left the room, a facilities maintenance worker put duct tape over the two-square-foot hole in the window...
When their minds wander, they pop in the two-hour tape marked "September 29: Harvard vs. Brown...
These figures are upsetting. Not that I have the sort of dinosaur mentality that makes me cling hopelessly to extinct and obsolete artifacts. I was completely pleased by the demise of that quintessentially 1970s conduit of musical mush, the eight-track tape, which had the annoying habit of dividing songs as it switched tracks, and also seemed to be what you bought for such embarrassing works (mistakes?) as the soundtracks to Grease and Saturday Night Fever, or anything by Andy Gibb, Bachman Turner Overdrive or Barry Manilow (yes, I admit it, I once owned this stuff; anyone who tells...