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Gablinger's is the kind of brew that a hearty beer fancier might find rather thin, but Rheingold officials feel that the broader taste trend is toward lighter lager. Moreover, says President Relin, no-carbohydrate Gablinger's is "a definite response to a weight watcher's need." He should know. Though careful not to give his new product credit for the feat, Relin has pared his own weight from 280 Ibs. two years ago to 185 Ibs. today...
...Kosygin also gave the Robinsons a cigarette lighter and several objects of Baltic amber, including a cigarette holder for Dr. Robinson, a teetotaler who does smoke an occasional cigarette...
Story in Context. Clifton Daniel, on the other hand, stresses the need for the paper to be entertaining, to provide lighter fare than the news-heavy morning Times. "The afternoon paper," he says, "is largely read by people on the move, who have different expectations from those who read the morning papers. There's the stockbroker who wants the closing prices, the racing fan who wants the results, the office worker who has been penned up all day and wants information about things he has heard piecemeal on the radio or in gossip, and those who want to know...
...Ashcan School. Hopper learned there that the proper study of American artists is American daily life, but the dark, flamboyant style that Henri encouraged among Hopper's fellow students, most notably George Bellows and Rockwell Kent, was not for Hopper. Instead, he went on to Paris, absorbed the lighter palette of the impressionists-and remained totally aloof from the Fauvist and cubist revolutions going on around...
...With one jolt from his cigarette lighter-ray gun, James Coburn became the roguish superspy in Our Man Flint. Zap! Zap! And the near-impossible switch from heavy to heartthrob was complete. It was Coburn's first leading role, but Flint made him a star, which means, among other things, that everybody wants him. They can get him too - for only $500,000, plus a slice of the profits...