Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Schuster to do a beauty book with a collaborator. There is talk of a weekly beauty-care spot on the Today show. She has discussed sportscasting. There is an easy $250,000 to be had by endorsing a Cheryl doll, she has been assured. She is not rushing to grab the money. "What if I want to be taken seriously as a television personality? You can't have that if you have a Cheryl doll. There's a Farrah doll, but there's no Phyllis George doll...
...asteroid out of yourself!"). Or, alternately, the Silly Joke ("Don't Be a Dope Head, Buy a Moped"). Or, alternately, the Cliche ("Let's Do It"); it's 2078, after all. As far as I could discern from the production notes, the main plot-line consists of a mad grab by three Human Cliches (or were they Human Puns?)--a Harvard student, a Man/Woman from Outer Space, and a Diabolical Villain with Madison Avenue Experience--for the right to be the last person cloned on Earth, and cloned with a vengeance at that--1000 times, hence the title...
...only was the contest at Providence, but Colgate sports the worst record in the ECAC, a smouldering 3-18-1 mark. One can only speculate that the Friars may have problems in their last two games with Northeastern and Boston College. They must win them both to grab the eight spot...
...parties at which all of these specialists get together took place in hotel rooms jammed with people on beds, chairs, floors, tables and TV sets. Hosts publicized their parties with signs posted all over the hotel, and people eager to attend--or often just to grab a free can of beer from an ice-filled bathtub--wandered up and down the corridors and in the elevators, looking for rooms with tell-tale open doors...
...Bacon and John Havens--playing on a badly injured knee--the number three and number two men for the Crimson, respectively, struggled to grab one game apiece before dropping 3-1 matches. When their opponents Gary Fogler and Frank Brosens walked off the courts victorious Princeton had clinched the match...