Word: hoffman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swarms of teenage boys tried to make out with reluctant gum-chewing teenage girls. Considering, though, that these "fabulous '50s" turned into the "turbulent '60s," it would seem that America suddenly woke up one morning and instead of finding a crew-cut Richie Cunningham on its doorstep, found Abbie Hoffman and a whole lot of trouble...
...that people wouldn't pay $4 to see what they could see on television," says Agent Michael Black. "It's not true any more." Another rule still seems intact, though: today's audiences will not step into a theater simply to see a star. Dustin Hoffman did not pull them into Straight Time, Henry Winkler could not do anything for The One and Only, Elizabeth Taylor failed to save A Little Night Music. Farrah Fawcett-Majors could smile, smile, smile and not make Somebody Killed Her Husband into a movie the somebodies wanted...
...Educational Testing Services (ETS) is extremely strong. They have friends in high places almost everywhere," Banesh Hoffman, a Queens College physicist who authored "The Tyranny of Testing," said yesterday...
...faintheartedness. The magazine quoted the racial slur that drove former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz into early retirement, printed an unflattering profile of est's Werner Erhard that Esquire had found too hot to handle, demolished liberal myths about the Black Panthers, grabbed the first interviews with Abbie Hoffman on the lam and Bill and Emily Harris in jail, found environmental horrors lurking in microwave ovens, drinking water and aerosol cans, and helped reopen the case of Peter Reilly, the young Connecticut man unjustly convicted of killing his mother. The magazine's last-page "Final Tribute" column...
...result of cleaning homes that she started her own catering service. "People can use this type of job as a steppingstone," she says. "It's a fast way to make money and it's the type of job you can always find." Fred and Harriet Hoffman, who once employed servants of their own, turned to domestic work when Fred's antique business faltered. At $10 an hour, they make enough to afford a $50,000 Fort Lauderdale town-house-one very similar to those they clean...