Word: buffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jadot's buff limestone headquarters on Massachusetts Avenue come scores of U.S. periodicals which are examined by the speed-reading prelate (1,000 words per minute in English) and six assistants. Jadot briefs the Holy See on many subjects, from the controvery over women priests to such matters as American help for famine-stricken countries, the feelings of U.S. Jews about Vatican policies, even advances in the techniques of mass communications. Most dispatches go to Rome by sealed diplomatic pouch, but more urgent messages are cabled in the Vatican's own diplomatic code...
...researcher who raises an embryo in his laboratory. Trouble is, Dr. Rock mixes the wrong ingredients, and presto, a fragile fetus becomes a fetching filly played by Barbara Carrera, a Nicaraguan fashion model. Hudson and Carrera quickly get down to more basic research, including a fireside frolic in the buff. "When a scene demands it, that's that," said Hudson, who has been swimming to get in shape for the role. "I have absolute faith in Ralph's innate good taste." Maybe, but what would Doris...
...many amazing Tiger performances, the most incredible was turned in by number seven man Buff Wohlbarth, who shot a 74, the second best score in the entire field...
...month rent out of his own pocket. Gifts are invariably returned to the sender: a gold pass to Disneyland, a copy of The Tale of Peter Rabbit in Latin. Brown even rejected a volume commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Los Angeles Music Center, a gift from Buff Chandler, matriarch of the politically powerful family that publishes the Los Angeles Times. With that, his father, former Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, complained, "Jerry goes too far. He could have at least sent a personal note...
George Benson: Bad Benson (CTI; $5.98). George Benson is in every way a superior guitarist to Beatle George Harrison, for example, or to Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page. Benson's uncluttered swinging blues set guitar-playing standards that quickly made his name known to every serious jazz buff. But after 20 years in an industry whose inflated lexicon calls every rock performer a star, Benson is still little recognized by the public. His style is romantic but ascetic - free of unnecessary electric trickery. Although he favors the slow tempi of Paul Desmond's Take Five...