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...analyses, sheaves of magazines and a couple of dime-store signs that proclaim BLESS THIS MESS and PLEASE DON'T STRAIGHTEN THE MESS ON MY DESK! YOU'LL GOOF UP MY SYSTEM. Thomas Aquinas Murphy, 62, chairman of General Motors Corp., is a casual fellow with gray Brillo hair, thick bookkeeper's spectacles, a heap of optimism and no pretenses. From his 14th-floor corner office behind security-locked glass doors in the Gen eral Motors Building, he looks out at Detroit's soaring Renaissance Center, which is the city's multimillion-dollar...
...instead a "liaison between the motion picture community and the artist." Mengers' well-pruned roster of artists includes Candice Bergen, Peter Bogdanovich, Gene Hackman, Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal, Burt Reynolds and Barbra Streisand, whose Mengers-arranged role in A Star Is Born last year earned the Brillo-headed diva about $10 million, minus the agency's 10%. (The story goes that when a frightened Streisand wanted to leave Hollywood after the murder of Sharon Tate, Mengers calmed her down. Stars were not being murdered, Mengers reassured her, only "featured players.") Mengers slyly arranged for Director Mike...
...Sports of the Nation and the World, Bruno beat hands down and reduced to less of an inexorable mishmosh of spare parts and erector set oil than he recently did to Stan Hansen, that Octopoid Bell-boy, JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH had to be picked off the floor with Brillo and a sponge. And Bruno just used words!! (More about this next...
...observer in mufti said it looked like "a college mixer on Mars." "Illusions," a fund-raising costume ball for Manhattan's Harkness Ballet Foundation, attracted 600 guests, including a walking Brillo pad, a spangled birdwoman and an elephantman with a trunk like a phallus. Among the party poppers: Actress Julie Newmar, who came barely disguised as a butterfly. "I thought it best not to be totally naked," confided Julie. "Just half-naked...
When permanents first came into fashion, not only a woman's hairdresser but everyone else too knew for sure. The springy mass of kinky curls that at best looked like Shirley Temple's and at worst like a Brillo pad was all too easy to identify. Women eventually smartened up and went straight, turning to the long, sometimes stringy look of the late '60s and early '70s. Now the curls are back, thanks to a hairdo dubbed the "unpermanent...