Word: line
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Federal laws prohibit Avon from touting Skin So Soft as a repellent, but the company is clearly not pestered by its secondary usage. Sales for products in the Skin So Soft line, including a lotion and a cream, are expected to jump 40% this year, to $40 million...
...street corner, always at our side, often at our mercy. The wild- eyed man blocks the subway-car aisle, slinging curses and entreaties. The gray madonna and her smudges of children hover outside the church, despair incarnate. The glib hustler in designer jeans glides down the movie line. The kids with the grimy windshield rags orbit the intersection. The old man with no eyes sits on the steam grates in winter in a wet cloud of pain. The obsequious panhandler waits outside the automated-teller machines, where wallets are full and walls are transparent. Somehow, always never seemed so often...
...suburban psychopath has become to the very teens he would menace. Freddy Krueger would never have won the Mr. Congeniality award at Springwood High, but at the box office he has matured into Most Likely to Succeed. As embodied by Actor Robert Englund, he is the star of New Line Cinema's A Nightmare on Elm Street series. Each sequel has outgrossed its predecessor, financially as well as filmically, with the first three installments cadging more than $100 million. And the new entry, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master, has, in Variety's cheery phrase, "slashed...
...Nightmares have sold half a million videocassettes. Next month a syndicated TV series, Freddy's Nightmares, debuts on more than 160 stations, with Englund playing host. The sales of Freddy Krueger merchandise have topped $15 million. The Freddy mask and hat outsold all other Halloween costumes last year. New Line reports brisk sales for two Nightmare books, five LPs and a board game. You can buy Freddy dolls, the familiar sweater and the signature glove (with plastic finger-knives). He's got his own fan club and MTV special. And come October, a 900 chat line...
...have made Nightmare the industry's most profitable horror series don't want Freddy destroyed. They want him back again next year, for April Fools' or Halloween. That's why, at the climax of Nightmare 4, everyone cheers when Freddy declares, "I am eternal!" The folks at New Line Cinema certainly hope so. They'll sleep better if their teenagers...