Word: noel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to evidence gathered by officials of several states, the firm used high-pressure telephone sales tactics. During one 30-day period, the Detroit office made more than 50,000 long-distance calls; prospects were harassed with what Noel Fox, a Detroit federal judge, called "unrestrained and unambiguous predictions of certain or enormous profits." Salesmen were driven hard: sometimes, men wearing gorilla and Superman suits pranced around urging them to boost orders...
...West grossed hugely in Europe, and Bronson got the chance to be himself, a hard man of few words and strong feelings-lé sacre monstre, as the French took to calling him. "I can't hang around a mantelpiece in a tuxedo with a cocktail speaking Noel Coward lines," he says. "When I was doing character parts, they were so far from me that it was always kind of ridiculous. I never really related to the way I looked, moved, sounded. Now I limit the range to where I'm believable...
...Club in Manhattan's theater district and turned it into a multifaceted Gospel center. It houses a residence for young actors and artists, and a restaurant that doubles as a Christian supper club on weekends. (December attractions: a professional puppet show on the Nativity, and converted Folk Singer Noel Paul Stookey, formerly the middleman of Peter, Paul and Mary.) Moore is also trying to establish a helpful beachhead in an asphalt jungle of derelicts, runaways, lost teen-agers and prostitutes, sex parlors and porn shops. Says he: "God isn't into skywriting. He's into people coming...
...would support a longer Christmas. And The Santa Corporation also had friends in the executive office of the Grand High Hoozie of the Land--friends who could make things very difficult for any dissident groups opposing the extension of Christmas. The Hoozie used his palace guard to infiltrate pro-Noel organizations; one Hoozie aide had a placard hanging on his office wall bearing the inscription, "When you've got them by the Christmas balls, their hearths and minds will follow...
Instead of a win-loss box score, however, the 1977 Crimson cross-country story should read like an injury chart, tallying Stein Rafto's never-ceasing knee troubles, and pointing out that Thad McNulty lost his hamstring, Noel Scid-more came down with pneumonia and Mark Meyer sprained his ankle...