Word: freshet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...France's traditionally subtle perfumes are under siege. Though the gentle Chanel No. 5 remains a bestseller, this fall's freshet of new scents was triggered by the success of Opium, which is sold under the Yves Saint Laurent label. It was so popular in Europe after its launching there in 1977 that its appearance in the U.S. had to be delayed a year for lack of supply. As it happens, Opium is marketed by a subsidiary of the Squibb Corp., the U.S. pharmaceutical firm, which pays the Yves Saint Laurent fashion house a royalty in return...
Henry Fonda is one of the very few actors who could dive into this two-inch-deep pool of a play and emerge from it with an Olympic gold medal. A frothy freshet of one-liners does not keep most of this stultifyingly shallow play from being poisonously dull...
...most brutal postwar recession has been the decisive slowdown in inflation. The surge in living costs has slackened from a peak annual rate of 13.6% in the three months ended last October to 5% in the three months ended in May. During the past two weeks, though, a freshet of price increases, actual or contemplated, on aluminum, autos, gasoline and sugar, has aroused some worry about whether the progress can be sustained. Then, rumors of a new Soviet purchase of U.S. grain revived memories of the massive-and inflationary-1972 Russian deal and temporarily caused futures prices of some grains...
This kind of taut traditional entertainment feeds a steady freshet of interest in TV movies. They are not locked in with overly familiar characters the way series shows are; and, given the endless need for new product, producers cannot help but try an occasional novelty, just as the studios did several decades ago when they were obligated to provide a weekly change of bill for their theater chains. Sometimes TV's good ideas do not quite come off, as in Shirts/Skins, in which no one decided whether the intense rivalries generated in a pickup basketball game were a funny...
...however, Mark loosed a freshet of stunning performances; he broke five U.S. and three world marks, took five gold medals in the Pan-American games at Winnipeg and was named Swimmer of the Year by Swimming World magazine. That did not sit too well with Schollander, who was still considered by many to be king of the aquatics hill. Haines, who had been selected to coach the U.S. men's team at Mexico City, did little to smooth over the rivalry with his candid statement: "Right now, Spitz is better than Schollander." As Chavoor puts it: "Mark wanted...