Word: outfitted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this is expensive. Besides the original fee, a family must pay to attire its daughter in her virgin white gown and often outfit her escorts as well. Other expenses include tickets for any guests they wish to bring, and the binding for the previously mentioned photo album. In addition to the official ball, the family may wish to give a private ball of their own. All told, a debut can easily cost over a thousand dollars...
...self-service, self-enhancement, self-assertion, and self-treatment. Equipment to facilitate what used to be called self-abuse, and literature encouraging its practice is also offered, along with energy pyramids, jogging shoes, biofeedback machines and ionizers, lore on herbology, kinesiology, esoteric breathing techniques, and organic sprouts from an outfit called Pinch of Love in Athens, Me. Mountains of books, too, by the star speakers and other luminaries. Sample titles: Stories the Feet Have Told Thru Reflexology, Rebirthing in the New Age. Here, in a continual flea-market atmosphere peopled by folks who say "head" when they mean "mind...
...release soon look highly promising, though. One, Philip Noyce's Newsfront, is a humorous and ultimately touching history of a postwar newsreel company slipping into bankruptcy as television eats into its markets. Noyce dares to cast as his hero a round-faced, bespectacled middle-aged man (Bill Hunter), the outfit's taciturn chief cameraman. Slowly a portrait emerges of an ordinary man possessed by extraordinary integrity. In its quiet way the film becomes a glowing tribute to common decency and middle-class values ? Capra without the Capracorn...
...firms that are allowed, even encouraged, to compete with one another. The firm's mainstay remains McCann-Erickson, which bills more than $1 billion annually in ads from a long list of blue-chip clients, including Miller Brewing and Exxon. The Marschalk agency, which was a small outfit when McCann-Erickson bought it in 1955, is now one of the fastest-growing U.S. ad firms, handling such heavyweights as Gillette, Heublein and Paine Webber. Erwin Wasey, a West Coast firm that joined the Interpublic fold in 1963, and Detroit-based Campbell-Ewald, a 1972 acquisition, have also prospered. The parent...
...London restaurant, Spenser replies: "I don't do assassinations." But he does do bounty hunts. The price: $2,500 a head, plus expenses, for the capture, dead or alive, of the nine terrorists involved. Spenser's marks are members of the so-called Liberty group, an anti-Communist outfit dedicated to preserving white rule in Africa...