Word: beaching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kingston Trio. Iced Campari among jet-setters at Enrico's Sidewalk Cafe, and hamburgers among Oriental teen-agers at Clown Alley. White-shod tourists and Mohawked punks. Saints and sinners bathed in the garish glow of strip joints. This is the cultural clashpoint known as North Beach. Here, on a three-block stretch of Broadway, the barkers compete hoarsely for the business of the leery and the leering. The price of admission is free, the two drinks usually required are not (tab: $6.50 each), and the "entertainment is degustibus -belly dancers at the Casbah, simulated live...
...most famous architecture in North Beach belongs to the Condor Club's Carol Doda, who began baring it 20 years ago just before the 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco, and will provide affirmative action for the Democrats four times a night next week. It is not an anniversary that many aging strippers would want to make a point of celebrating, but Doda says coyly, "I agree with Einstein, who said time is kind of a relative thing." Perhaps, and as long as the famous silicon implants that swelled her bustline to 44 inches remain a permanent thing...
...contains 128 calories in four ounces, about the same as frozen yogurt, but fewer than the 250 or more for premium ice cream. NutraSweet, the sugar substitute, may soon be used to further reduce calories. Because Tofutti is both butterfat and cholesterol-free, Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach even serves the confection to heart patients. It contains no lactose, good news for the millions of Americans who suffer an adverse reaction to milk-based products...
...Suddenly there is a murder, then another, then ... Flynn is invited to investigate. Who is expunging all of these parasites? While the venerable members scurry about hiding corpses, Flynn puzzles it through, though the murders themselves seem just and appropriate. This is shameless Establishment bashing and ideal under-the-beach-umbrella reading...
...jokes (the heroine, played by Lucy Gutteridge, informs Nick that her name, Hillary, means "she whose bosoms defy gravity") over a dizzying succession of generic spoofs. Beyond the basic sendup, which is of World War II-vintage spy movies, they work in parodies of Bond-style adventures and beach-blanket and malt-shop rock-'n'-roll musicals. Omar Sharif is the veteran star recruited to mock his image and collect the good-sport award from audiences. The dictum that less is more means nothing here; pace and profligacy are everything. This time, though, the creative group has neglected...