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Word: m (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...M's blimps and antennas are all very nice, but they are mere baubles compared with Houston-based rival Sakowitz's "ultimate gift" selections for this holiday season. Sakowitz is the store that in 1975 offered a bathtub full of diamonds for a cool $153 million. In 1974, they enticed Christmas shoppers with a Boeing 747 for $27 million, a 727 for $9.25 million and a 707 for $11 million...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: All I Want for Christmas......Is A Blimp or Two | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...into conspicuous consumption, you can always opt for edible presents. N-M has what they call a "Sweet Tooth"--one pound of solid chocolate shaped like a molar, roots and all, costs...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: All I Want for Christmas......Is A Blimp or Two | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...ugly thought, it all happened too soon to be sure, and Hercules shelved it till later. He decided to ask Arnold about his latest movie. Conan the Barbarian. Shooting was delayed until spring. Arnold said, because of his various commitments. "It could be that I'm doing another project before then, because I just got a script that was very good. It's called "The Jayne Mansfield Story...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Arnies of the Night | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...bottom line is, I do miss it sometimes, yes, especially when I'm on the road a lot, then whenever I go back to California I usually visit friends who have families and this way I get a feeling a little bit of that kind of family life--the dog, the cat, the children around screaming, this and that...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Arnies of the Night | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

...bother Hercules, he had dealt with oceanic egos, he had one himself. He even found it appealing: here was a hero, a man who would move the world with a large enough lever and his own belief in himself. "I set a goal and I go after it...I'm not at all tense about it. I visualize it, I see it in front of me that it will happen, and then it's just a matter of motions, going through motions and working up to that level...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Arnies of the Night | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

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