Word: frugalities
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...bittersweet affair with an older man, a famous violinist. David O. Selznick had bought the remake rights in 1939 and brought Bergman to Hollywood to re-create her role opposite Leslie Howard. The film made her a star, and Selznick made an image for this shy, frugal, occasionally awkward young woman: no makeup, no eyebrow plucking, no glamorizing. It was a fresh angle, and it worked especially well in the wartime '40s, when frivolous excess was regarded as unpatriotic. The gurgling approval of the women's clubs and pictures like The Bells of St. Mary...
Most older people understand that Social Security is only an adjunct. Consequently, they have lived frugal lives, paid off mortgages, saved and invested. They have been sabotaged by things beyond their control: longer life, lower birth rates, overexpansion of the Social Security program and, most devastating, inflation. Let's not polarize young against old as if the latter had caused the mess...
...sales growth, however, has come from catering to the frugal car buyer. Detroit has also rolled out a new generation of so-called muscle cars for those who want high performance and are willing to pay for it. Earlier cars that had lots of vroom were immortalized by Beach Boys songs of the 1960s, but they went out of production largely because of tough Government fuel-economy and pollution regulations. Now some automakers have produced models that get respectable gas mileage but can still accelerate from 0 to 60 m.p.h. in 7 sec. Some of the hottest sellers: the Ford...
...Architect Percival Goodman, who has designed more than 50 religious and community buildings in the U.S., including handsome synagogues in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Michigan, the religious building of the future will be "modest in size and frugal in use of materials...
...Johns Hopkins and Cornell it worked back to .500 with wins over Boston College and Pennsylvania. Mike Davis scored three goals against B.C. and freshman Steve Bartenfelder got five against Penn as the offense began to produce. Goalie Tim Pendergast held the Quakers to only five goals--a frugal one in the second half--as the defense showed signs of gelling. Midfielders, began to charge up and down the field like able midfielders do, scooping up ground balls and wielding their sticks like war staffs...