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...tourists frequent. Even so, their everyday costs are hefty. A modest two-bedroom house in a suburb rents for $1,600 a month; a gallon of gas costs $2.30 or more, a pair of Levi's about $40, cigarettes $1.10 to $2.70, newspapers at least 40? and a pound of steak...
...strong intimations of dressing-room decadence made them notorious. Their mode may have been outré, but their music was just good old rock 'n' roll sand blasted back to life. The Dolls laid down searing, pop-inflected rock, proudly rooted in rhythm and blues, that could pound your ears into flapjacks. Sardonic anthems like Personality Crisis and Vietnamese Baby did not sit easy on a pop establishment that was still recovering from flower power and cuddling up to the peaceful, easy feeling of the California sound. The Dolls made two records and then, in 1975, broke apart...
...Week without pain or loss of all-important style points. If you want to enjoy your week, do it this way. Arrive a little bit late, at the risk of being stuck with the living room or the misfit in your rooming group. Yeah, that's right, the 400-pound sumo wrestler from East Schneck who listens to opera real loud, and picks his nose...
...editor of the now defunct Chicago Daily News and at the age of 28 became editor of the prosperous Mansfield News-Journal (circ. 40,000). Since then he has been the target of telephone threats ("You're going to be dead"), a mysterious fire, a five-pound rock through his living room window and $45 million in libel suits. He has lost his job and his life savings, and his wife and four children have left...
...Reserve Board also poured some $2 billion into the foreign exchanges to buy dollars, and at week's end the slide was stemmed. Still, in the past month the dollar has lost roughly 5% of its value against the West German mark, Swiss franc, French franc and British pound...