Word: burners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...curb inflation. Meany made it clear at a news conference last week that he was "very, very wary of any kind" of controls. He did, however, emphasize the need to expand jobs. Said Lane Kirkland, No. 2 man at the AFL-CIO: "Everything else is on the back burner...
What happened at first was not very much, with the network rejecting the producers' first proposal (titled The Alley Cats). Later, they got a go-ahead on a revised proposal for a pilot from then ABC Vice President Michael Eisner. Still, the notion languished on the back burner until Fred Silverman (see box page 70) took over last year as president of ABC Entertainment. He was immediately attracted to the show and ordered Spelling-Goldberg to get cracking. They made a slick pilot, which won a place for the series on the fall schedule...
...apartment with a couple of shopping bags full of food, the vignette seems at first too recognizable. Any mother would bring along a chicken. But only Mrs. Lapinsky would present it snuggled in a pot, surrounded with potatoes and vegetables all cleaned and carefully cut, ready for the front burner. The scene becomes a classic car toon with a new caption...
...love the Th.D.," Stendahl said last week. "I have one myself. But if Th.D.s will always be discriminated against because of nomenclature, we shouldn't hold on to it." He said his feeling is "we should put the Th.D. on ice, on the back burner...
...founded the company, most recently in 1973. That was when Revlon introduced a new perfume under the improbable name "Charlie." Associates grimaced, competitors smiled, and Revson went on talking about how it was perfect for "the woman who is sort of liberated but who isn't a bra burner." Revson's semi-lib market turned out to be there all right-and enormously profitable too. In that first year, Charlie sales exceeded $10 million in the U.S., and today stores sell more Charlie than any other American fragrance...