Word: camels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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McInerney has written a screenplay for the movie version of Bright Lights, and he recently began work on his third novel. Screenwriting, he said, "is not like writing a novel--it's camel by committee time--but the perks are great...
...Calif., every Christmas season since 1981. This year's three-times-nightly, 75-minute re-enactment of the birth of Jesus boasts Singer Debby Boone, 29, as the Virgin Mary, plus a cast of more than 400 that includes ten flying angels, four white horses, a donkey and three camels. Boone, who is herself expecting this spring, agreed to do the part "because I think it's one of the most important stories that can ever be told." But she reports that one moment in the show did not light up her life: when she accidentally knelt in some "well...
...personal history of most smokers is rich with the availability and advocacy of cigarettes. Billions of dollars have been spent by the tobacco companies over the past 60 years to modify the behavior of consumers. In fact, the popular cigarette slogan, "I'd walk a mile for a Camel," was written by the first American behaviorist, John B. Watson, who had lost his professorship at Johns Hopkins and ended up as an advertising executive at J. Walter Thompson in New York...
...children of this Boston suburb have used the expanse of vacant land as their exclusive preserve, a wild place, slightly apart. It is all-purpose terrain, perfect for many kinds of serendipity, a place where kids can build a secret fort, practice daredevil bike riding over hillocks called the Camel Humps, share the painful silences of adolescent romance or even read a book alone...
...Philip Morris takeover of General Foods is part of the cigarette industry's diversification trend. Reason: U.S. cigarette sales have declined by about 4% during the past three years. In June, R.J. Reynolds, maker of Camel and Salem, bought Nabisco Brands for $4.9 billion. That development coincides with consolidation in the food industry. In addition to the Reynolds-Nabisco agreement, there were also mergers between Nestle and Carnation and Beatrice Foods and Esmark during the past 14 months...