Word: classiers
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...variety show: "When a good movie is on, I watch it instead." But audiences always loved hard-luck Eunice and the other antic victims Burnett has played for eleven years, 286 programs. Alas, The Carol Burnett Show signs off the air this week. "It's classier to leave before you're asked to go," says Burnett. How does she explain her durability on the tube? Maybe, she says, it is because she has a "tinge of being amateurish" and is just an ordinary "whitebread woman." Audiences might say enriched...
...Union dorms didn't do much for him either--the nicest building in the neighborhood, he concluded, was the Elk's Lodge across from Pennypacker. After meeting Larry, who was well into his fifth Budweiser since lunch, he wondered out loud that maybe the Elk's had a classier clientele...
...novel does ask a better question, though. Tom, who has fought a hard war, now rides a commuter train and works at a corporate job. Shouldn't there be something more to life, he wonders dimly, than crawling up the salary ladder, moving from suburb to classier suburb? If the process by which a novel becomes a bestseller is not simply a random phenomenon, like the winning of a lottery-a dubious proposition that wise old publishers brood about-then Gray Flannel owed its vogue to the fact that a lot of sad young men were thinking...
...champion was in command throughout and looked as if he could end the fight at any point as the slow-moving Wepner plodded through the ring throwing off-the-mark punches at his classier target...
Grants was still looking for the customers to go along with the classier image it was trying to create when the recession arrived; sales dropped, unsold goods piled up-and so did Grant's interest bills. In 1973 alone, Grant's interest costs jumped from $21 million to $51 million. To unload its excess goods, Grants slashed prices by as much as 50% in pre-Christmas sales last month; as a result, total sales fell by a painful 5% in dollar terms in 1974. When the company was unable to meet a $40 million payment...