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Political Help. Bad as it was, last year would have been much worse except for some promotional windfalls. The auto industry, caught with a massive pile-up of unsold cars, launched lavish ad campaigns to boost sales by offering rebates. Bicentennial promotions also helped. But the most surprising source of ad revenues was the spate of new brands, from toothpaste to cigarettes, turned out by companies seeking a sales edge in a newly competitive climate. In all, 1,023 new brands were introduced in 1975, the largest annual outpouring in twelve years. This year, the pace of new-brand offerings...
...changing surface of 15 Lansdowne Street reflects all this. Expensive cover charges are dropped, then raised, then juggled desperately from night to night in an attempt to draw a larger crowd. The management retrenches, closing the club at two now instead of four a.m. The lavish vases of fresh-cut flowers--crisp white carnations and crowds of blue irises the color of twilight--are gone. The bare walls have emerged from behind them, triumphant. Heavy and silent, they tolerate the denim-bedecked transient dancers and ache from their loud stream of music. The smaller inanimate objects--little glass tables, sculptured...
Nixon returned Peking's hospitality with a lavish dinner for his hosts in the Great Hall of the People. The Chinese, however, refused to allow him to pay for the ten-course banquet (including "eight-jewelled pigeon" stuffed with lotus root and virgin mushrooms, cream-of-chestnut puree, and other delicacies...
...three sons was married last summer, all the Bailey women showed up and cheerfully posed with Lee for a group snapshot, each of them holding up one, two or three fingers to indicate their sequence in the This Was Bailey's Life marital tableau. He is a lavish Christmas gift-giver, distributing houses, cars, a house trailer and trips to his parents, wife, ex-wives, in-laws and children. But he sees few of them regularly?except for Lynda, who travels almost everywhere with him and sometimes serves as his personal secretary...
Godspell. Stephen Schwartz's musical based on the Gospel according to St. Matthew, which you may remember from a lavish and innovative film version a few years ago and the AM radio hit "Day by Day." In case you miss this production, the Radcliffe Grant-in-Aid society is resurrecting the show as its spring musical. At the Charles Playhouse, 74 Warrenton Street, through January 25. Performances Tuesday through Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 6:30 and 9:30 p.m., and Sunday...