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...daughter was three years old, and Mickey Hargitay, a former body builder turned real estate investor. Following in her mother's footsteps, young Hargitay will enter U.C.L.A. next fall, where she will be a theater arts major. Her 36-24-36 frame may lack some of the oomph of her mother's famed 40-18-36 curves, but Mariska feels that maternal comparisons are onerous. An immediate goal is related to an old title of her father's. "My dad was Mr. Universe," she says, "so it would be fun for me to be Miss Universe...
...feeders might take butterfat for thought from a test of 28 vanillas run a couple of Sundays ago by the Washington Star. Nine food experts, including Weiss, rated his own product fifth but decreed that Häagen-Dazs belonged in second place ("pleasing texture," "natural flavor," insufficient "oomph"). Frusen Glädjé was not tested; Alpen Zauber was far down the list, in the "puffy-fluffy, sweet-misery" category, having been rated "creamy but no taste," "salty." So were several other prestige brands: Sedutto's, Bassetts, Baskin-Robbins, Louis Sherry, Breyers and Schrafft's. First place...
...drinks cost less than they do at competing entertainment spots: deli sandwiches average $2, a pitcher of beer or a carafe of wine, $4.50. "It's very difficult to get people to go out," says John Duffy. "We wanted to provide a revolutionary idea, the little 'oomph' to go to a movie...
...oomph worked well enough for the brothers to open two other movie bars in Florida and sell the franchises for two Cinema 'n' Drafthouses in Jacksonville and Atlanta. They have contracted to open five more franchises in the next year. The movies, changed each week, are usually comedies or action fare with stars like Clint Eastwood, Woody Allen and Burt Reynolds...
...composer of symphonies andlieder, it came as a shock to the German people when they heard a medley of their university songs composed by a master. Jarvi conducted the Academic Festival Overture, written after Brahms received an honorary doctorate from the University of Breslau in 1880, with zest and oomph...