Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sakowitz is also offering a gift called "An Apple a Day Keeps the Doctor Away." For $20,000 the store will hand deliver to any city in the continental United States one fresh apple every day of 1980. Next year, they are quick to point out, is a leap year. The 366 apples, at Sakowitz's price, amount to a little more than $50 dollars each. Perfect for teachers...
...Baden-Baden, West Germany, where health spa and beauty farm facilities are available and a Mercedes limosine will be on hand. To take the strain out of the trip to Germany, Sakowitz will reserve the entire first class section of a Lufthansa Airlines 747. The recipient of this gift will be the only person up front in the plane and the first on and off. For one person, the cost of the trip is $55,922. Excluding the exclusive air transportation expense, the price drops to a mere...
...store's most unusual pet for holiday gift-giving is the mudskipper, which the manager described as "a strange creature with bulbous eyes that lives partly in and partly out of the water." The "quite ugly" beasts kill for the sake of killing and are "pretty vicious." The store currently has several of the ferocious buggers that measure between one and a half and three inches long, but it is expecting any day now to receive some monsters up to ten or twelve inches in length...
Kramer vs. Kramer-- The media rabble hails this as the best film of the decade. It's dramatic, moving, charming, honest, well-acted, and well-written--great. But God's gift to moviegoers? Scroogle...
This year's biggest selling album, "Pope John Paul II Sings at Sacrosong," with its cheerful tunes and bright singing, could enfuse even the Ayatollah Khomeini with the Christmas spirit. But while the album is beautifully packaged and perfect as a Christmas gift and momento of this year's papal visit, the title is deceiving--the Pope hardly sings at all. In fact, he doesn't sing once on the entire second side. It's hard not to fell cheated, especially since God only knows where the profits...