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...overall execution, although enthusiastic, was rather sloppy. Several of the numbers were enhanced considerably by the talents of Lise Landis, whose fluidity makes virtually any step look easy, but the dancing still needs a couple of nights to gel...
...department stores, magic sets are big along with ten-speed bikes and all sorts of arts and crafts, including candlemaking outfits. Boys want Evel Knievel ($ 15) as well as Big Jim and Big Jack dolls, and girls ask for Baby Alice, a creature who eats gel, which then comes out on its diaper, and a Barbie doll with a real hair dryer run by batteries ($15). The subteen set also wants records: the Osmond Brothers, David Cassidy, The Jackson 5, Andy and David Williams, and the Carpenters. Unlike their hard-rock counterparts, the young idols come on as shy homebodies...
Fieser got quite proficient at making napalm. "It's quite simple," he said. "You just take gasoline, sprinkle in some powder, and stir. First it turns into a mixture the consistency of applesauce, and then you let it sit a while and it turns into a thick, tough gel." He pulled a vial of napalm from one of his office shelves; it looks like dried yellow glue. Fieser said that although it was made 30 years ago it would still burn...
...takes extreme pains to transform her face with makeup-glopping a brownish base on her neck to create "shadows," penciling in an outline around the lips to make them look more even. To even out her jaw-the left side is minutely larger than the right-she adds bronze gel to one side...
...some of my readers seem to think that I have a style which is not unpleasing. A young lady has told me that she could easily get me a job on a large American magazine. I could not accept this offer because my ideas often take months to gel, so that I could not write for The Weekly Reader no matter how extensive its circulation in academic circles. However, my friends assure me that the readership of this magazine and of The Harvard Crimson are one and the same...