Word: chico
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tears on My Pillow" slowed down and personalized into a poignant depiction of lost love is simply tremendous, as is "Teenager in Love" in which (swear to God) Chico actually cries. New numbers "Sha Boom" and "Summertime" are welcome deviations from the traditional Sha repertoire. "Summertime" particularly, with Johnny "Kid" Contardo once again revealing how versatile and disciplined his voice really is, is superb...
...lionized for his logic-Will Rogers, for example, or for that matter, Dr. Spock, who shrewdly titled his 1946 volume The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care. But by midcentury, sense was no longer common. Today the American public can be intimidated by those who ask Chico Marx's question: "Who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes...
Independent oil marketers-the chains of off-brand stations that buy surplus gasoline and resell it at discount prices-are being squeezed hardest as major oil companies save what gas they have for their own stations. White Eagle Oil Co. of Chico, Calif., closed six outlets last month; Gibbs Oil Co., a 350-station chain in the Northeast, has shut 15 stations and may put others on short hours. Eleven Sears, Roebuck & Co. outlets around Miami have begun to limit motorists to ten gallons per visit. Metro 500 of Minneapolis has temporarily closed 16 of its 17 stations, and Owner...
...Word. Gentry, meanwhile, moved to California and bought back from Sovex for $1,500 the granola rights for states west of the Rockies. Then he sold the California territory for $18,000 to Lassen Foods of Chico, Calif. At last count, Lassen's annual sales of granola were $3 million and the company has installed a bank of specially built ovens to bake the stuff. Gentry also took off for Australia, western Canada and Hawaii planting granola seeds, in the form of royalty arrangements with local health-food manufacturers, as he went. His latest deal was with Breads...
...from close behind, as the man stares at some distant hills; the image conveys an intangible sense of menace. More often, though, the style amounts only to mannerism. Even the performances-guiding actors has always been Kazan's greatest strength -are surprisingly disappointing. Only Steve Railsback and Chico Martinez, as the visitors, bring to the film any substantial credibility...