Word: busted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parts, however, make for a highly imperfect whole. As a musical and historical event, the caravan was a total bust. The film's best sequences are those-like Antioch, or a look at a family of Colorado speed freaks dressed as cavemen-in which the tie-dyed patina of the whole project is mocked. But such moments are few. Which is a pity, because as a piece of deliberate self-parody Medicine Ball Caravan could have been fascinating...
...late 1940s she did a little CIA work in Lebanon. The most famous Miss America is undoubtedly New York City's Commissioner of Consumer Affairs, Bess Myerson Grant, who put a little too much truth in packaging at the 1945 pageant by tucking her 36-in. bust into a size 34 swimsuit. The most infamous beauty, alas, came from the pageant's home state. Janice Hansen, Miss New Jersey 1944, became a Mafia moll, a career that came up short in 1959 when she was killed by gangsters along with her companion, Anthony ("Little Augie") Pisano...
Russ Meyer, the Barnum of the skin-flicks,has recently been grinding out his sexploitation films under the imprimatur of major studios. He now follows the thunderous vulgarity of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls with a tepid adaptation of Irving Wallace's best-seller about an obscenity bust, The Seven Minutes...
...loose accounting, not to any improvement in real earnings. The stock market rose by over 30% during that period and then lost all its gain during the decline of 1969-70. Had earnings been as flat as they are now reported to have been, the stock market boom and bust would have been milder, and the economic boom would not have become so overheated...
...among the hippier young, imbued as they are with the back-to-nature ethic. A favorite at Reflections, located in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, is a nine-inch replica of President Nixon billed as: "The Melting of the President," or "Now You Can Own the Most-Talked-About Bust in Years: Drippy Dick." For those with positive sentiments about peace, Chicago's Jack B Nimble sells candle peace symbols at $2.50 and the word peace in candle block letters for $6. Even more pacifist is a Venus de Milo candle for $3.95 -it's guaranteed...