Word: grime
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Expensive Midi. The downtown merchants-who have to cope with the crime, grime and transport snarls of the central city-are being hurt worst. There are some exceptions; for example, Chicago's Marshall Field and San Francisco's I. Magnin are doing well. On the other hand, in the twelve months ended last August, retail sales in downtown Cleveland plunged 23%; they fell 12% in downtown Philadelphia, 10% in Los Angeles, Baltimore and Boston...
...terms of profits on invested capital, grime pays even more handsomely for producers of stag films for the home. The male "actors" in these movies are often paid nothing-they do it for the sport-the women usually get no more than $25 or $35 for the whole show. The biggest expense is processing the film. From a single master copy, the producer can make 250,000 prints at a cost of about $2 to $4 each. Black-and-white stag movies retail for about $25; in color they cost...
Flit Guns. Cincinnati citizens turned the two-night extravaganza into a community project. The Minsky show was staged in the nearby Shubert Theater, and post-performance parties were thrown at the Gayety. Some 100 lady volunteers scrubbed away part of the Gayety's grime and even painted over the most unsavory washroom graffiti. Sixty years of libidinous musk was impossible to eradicate, however; before the opening-night party, Flit guns filled with Nettie Rosenstein perfume were distributed among the ladies...
...coal dust and grime...
Then you were lifted out of the smoke and grime--and memories better left in the ashtray--and propelled into the sub-ether by Sun Ra and the Space Arkestra. If you grew up devouring Heinlein, Asimov, del Rev, Sturgeon, Bradbury and all the rest, you can't help resenting Sun Ra a little. You think to yourself that this guy just said to himself, "Outer space, yeah, that's what's happening; I think I'll make some outer space music." The lyrics, when they occur and when you can make them out, are so simple and naive that...