Word: far-out
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Johnny) Carson, says that requests for far-out fingers have gone up tremendously of late. One of Vartoughian's current specialties: Valentines. Manicurist Minnie Smith, a 20-year veteran whose Minnie-designs decorate the likes of Sinatra, Lovelace, Mitzi Gaynor and Leslie Uggams, is giving a $350 course in finger painting. One of the most innovative designers is Paula Johnson, who has turned one customer's fingernails into a handful of cards (a full house). Manicurist Dyan Hill, who had five years of art school, recently deployed a Chinese dragon in turquoise, gold, orange, lime green and fuchsia...
...current issue. Its 20 youthful staffers-many of them refugees from straight publications like Good Housekeeping-work out of a large loft in Manhattan. Editorially, High Times has so far ranged all the way from the bizarre to the benumbed. One early issue ran a far-out, unverified, unsigned account of President John Kennedy "turning on" to alleviate his back troubles ("I Was Kennedy's Dealer"). Later issues have come down to more clear-eyed and believable fare, including pieces on the medical effects of drugs, roundups on drug busts, and even the latest summary of drug prices...
...financial plight of Mayor Abraham Beame's New York City is so grim that even far-out jokes have a certain plausibility. Somehow, before the end of the fiscal year on June 30, the city must raise a staggering $1 billion to meet its payroll and operating expenses and pay off its notes and bonds. Yet so shaky is its credit that it may not be able to raise the money-with the prospect of skipping payday for city employees or even defaulting on its obligations. The one fleeting hope for a painless solution came crashing down last week...
When Princeton Physicist Gerard K. O'Neill made the proposal that space colonies be established to relieve the earth's overcrowding, increasing pollution and energy shortages, many of his more skeptical colleagues dismissed the scheme as one more exercise in scientific fantasy. But, unlike many other far-out proposals, the idea has not faded into oblivion...
...academicians. It has been vigorously denounced by multinational executives, including PepsiCo Chairman Donald Kendall, who says that the book displays an anti-growth bias that "sounds like a great leap backward to the Dark Ages." Both sides have ammunition: Global Reach is an odd blend of reasoned argument and far-out fantasy...