Word: brandes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...days turn colder and the winter air breezes through Harvard's windows, administrators will still be busy figuring out which brand of storm windows they should have installed this year...
Many ski shops still have large inventories of last year's models--still guaranteed and unused--and these provide the opportunity for the best savings, if one is content to forego the dubious distinction of having the "very latest." Look for name brand equipment which is marked way off the list price and choose the best discount. This can easily be done by shopping the ski shop advertisements in the Boston papers...
...used the same sort of situation and devices (plays like Moonchildren and The Wager). What these plays have in common is the use of clever, Tom Stoppard-like dialogue as a facade, covering emotions that are revealed in a dramatic crisis. Paul Ableman is no Tom Stoppard, but his brand of collegiate wit keeps the surface of his play funny and entertaining...
Anticipating thin shopping crowds this season, stores are cutting down on part-time sales help and even committing the unheard-of act of promoting pre-Christmas bargains, such as brand-name $14 shirts for $6.99 in Boston. Korvettes discount department stores in Manhattan are offering scrip worth $ 110 in merchandise to customers who bring in $100 in Christmas Club checks. Chicago's Montgomery Ward chain, which has an unusually high inventory of unsold goods, has decided to bring back last year's energy saving and cut down on costly Christmas lighting displays...
...powerful piece of theater, which gives considerable insight into Lenny's life. It is based mostly on Bruce's own routines and court battles, but manages to present them with continuity. The bits themselves, carefully edited, represent the best of Lenny Bruce and capture his change in mood and brand of humor--as arrests persisted, Lenny's character became increasingly raffish, his voice increasingly strident and self-righteous, until he was trying to frighten his audience more than amuse...