Word: buffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...having learned about it," the filial, but still skeptical, grandson explains carefully. (Norris is engaged in finishing all his own roast beef and a fraction of his identical twin's sentences.) "It is a difficult thing to check, isn't it? But he was a clever man--an astronomy buff, used to have the whole family up to look at the planets." Ross goes on to the next subject. When unquestionable authority is lacking, even compilers of record books make do with circumstantial evidence...
What is that naked lady doing in a fashion show? Juliet Prowse, 38, in the buff will be the highlight of this year's Fashion Awards, to be aired on March 19 on ABC. It is not intended to be an insult to the winners, who include Designers Bill Blass, Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren, but simply a moment in the history of fashion. "It's a musical montage-type thing, starting with a naked Eve and back full circle to almost naked in a string bikini," explains Juliet. There is apparently no danger of a network furor...
...market are imports: the Japanese Honda Civic and the Datsun B-210, which get 39 m.p.g. More light-weight metals will be used. Tires will be smaller, and front ends may be built of plastic. The myriad models that now confuse all but the most ardent car buff will be drastically trimmed-at a substantial savings in production costs. Major model changes will probably be made only once every six years, instead of every three years...
What senior cinema buff could forget the raspy voice and menacing non-presence of Claude Rains in the 1933 movie of H.G. Wells' The Invisible Manl Perhaps the only movie ever made in which the star's face is shown only once, and then when he is dead, The Invisible Man made Rains' ghastly reputation. Now David McCallum, one of TV's men from UNCLE of a decade ago, has taken over the role in a made-for-TV movie to be aired on March 11. Wells' fantasy of a chemist made invisible, then driven...
...escapist movies are making a comeback. So far, Remington has sold 8,000 copies of its calendar at $4 each, and orders are still coming in for the vintage specimen that bears a grand magazine-art painting of a hunter and mountain lion, eyeball to eyeball. For the Depression buff who used to have everything...