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...final fight, the traditional climax of the Rocky epics, exceeds all earlier matches. Rocky gives and takes blows surrealistically enhanced by Dolby sound. Lang lashes back, growling and gnashing through his rubber mouthpiece. The experience is the nearest thing to being in a seat in Caesars Palace this Friday night that a moviegoer is likely to find. Indeed, the physical damage in the screen version surpasses that of many real bouts...
When women using Clairol's Nice 'n Easy hair-coloring kits want to get some expert guidance on exactly how much tint to apply, free advice is as close at hand as the nearest telephone. They simply call up the toll-free 800 number listed on an instruction sheet in the package and ask. Clairol is one of a growing list of firms that use AT&T's system of toll-free 800 numbers to foster good consumer relations. Says Jack Shor, vice president for public relations at the New York-based hair care, cosmetics and beauty...
Brown is what bettors would call a mortal lock to win the Democratic nomination. The latest Field poll has the Governor running about 45 points ahead of his nearest rival, Novelist Gore Vidal, 56, who refers to Brown as "Lord of the Flies"-a snide reference to last summer's Mediterranean fruit-fly crisis. At the moment, Brown trails all three top prospective G.O.P. opponents in the polls. However, the Governor has a $2 million campaign fund and is a formidable vote getter when he steers clear of moonbeam topics, a mistake he makes far less often than...
...Willis, 20, are the fourth generation of Browns on the place. "Mud season's not so bad as it used to be," says Brown. "We used to have to hitch up the horses to the wagon and draw out the milk in cans to the nearest hard road to be collected. That would go on for six weeks every year. Roads got better once they had to get the buses through to these consolidated schools. And the bulk truck comes every day to pick up the milk. Everything's changed...
...Mussolini and Chamberlain; he sits raptly before a Busby Berkeley musical extravaganza; he watches himself at a filmed rally and mouths the Führer's words. He was both the big star and his biggest fan. And Speer (Rutger Hauer)-the young architect who became "the nearest thing Hitler has to a friend" and ran Germany's war machine while Hitler lay quivering inside the bunker of his psychosis-played both a featured role and the ideal, attentive audience. It was not until his imprisonment for war crimes that Speer became Nazism's most knowledgeable critic...