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...what, perchance, did he mean by "Fat City"? The straights of the press were so bewildered that the White House press office felt constrained to come forth with a gloss. "Fat City: A state of mind characterized by mild to extreme euphoria, usually induced by a combination of salubrious climate and fortunate personal circumstances...
...MILLIE (Decca). It's the bee's knees, the cat's whiskers and 23-skidoo in the razzmatazz sound of the '20s, featuring Julie Andrews and Carol Channing from the sound track. Julie sweetens up the oldies (Poor Butterfly, Baby Face) and puts a high gloss on the show's new tunes (Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Tapioca), while Carol stamps her mark on Jazz Baby and Do It Again...
...that the sky would not fall and mothers would not march if he published bare bosoms; he realized that the old taboos were going, that, so to speak, the empress need wear no clothes. He took the oldfashioned, shame-thumbed girlie magazine, stripped off the plain wrapper, added gloss, class and culture. It proved to be a surefire formula, which more sophisticated and experienced competitors somehow had never dared contemplate...
...people press in on weekday nights; weekends, up to a thousand customers clamor for medium-priced trivia, including Yugoslavian pipes ($3.00), and off-beat books and records. "We sell a lot of things that are generally available," concedes Heilburn. But the psychedelic label adds a commercial gloss. "It puts things in a new light. This is what makes these places...
MONDAY, MONDAY (RCA Victor). The Paul Horn Quintet has borrowed Monday, Monday from the Mamas and the Papas, Norwegian Wood from the Beatles and Satisfaction from the Rolling Stones, and given them all a high gloss. The decorations are pretty, but the songs sounded jazzier the way they were in the beginning. A comedown from Reedman Horn's eloquent performance on last year's Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts...