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...pages of text, he had offered hardly one new thought. Indeed, much of his speech was a pastiche of cliches from other party pep talks going back 15 years. But it created precisely the evangelistic effect that he had hoped for: the delegates jumped to their feet and gave him a proloneed, heartfelt ovation. Even Dissenter Cousins joined the cheering, ready to relent a bit. "We can differ on one specific issue. But it doesn't mean we're not right behind the government on all else...
...dozen years ago, Critic John Mason Brown defined television as chewing gum for the eyes. Now the record industry has come up with bubble gum for the ears. Set to a chink-a-chink beat, bleated out with pep-rally fervor, it goes like this...
...phenylbutazone found in Kennedy's sample cost him the primary despite the fact that many experts admit that the drug merely is a painkiller and not a pep pill...
...Ruthrauff & Ryan) and at Good Humor Corp. (where he had been president), Mahoney, 44, proved to be a dash of effervescence. By paring administrative overhead and closing two of the company's 16 bottling plants, he cut $1,500,000 a year from operating costs. To pep up promotion, he hired two new ad agencies for soft drinks; he allocated more money to plug such profitable sidelines as Canada Dry gin and vodka and Johnnie Walker scotch, which the company distributes in the U.S. In came four outsiders and out went four of the company's 16 vice...
Watching them with innocent eyes is a theatrical amanuensis (Barbara Parkins) who soon learns that the room at the top has no exit. Patty is boffo at the box office, but perpetually drunk on booze and zonked by "dolls"-drugs that pep her up in the morning and put her to sleep at night. Susan gets sharp lines in her face and dull ones in her plays. Sharon, a cancer victim, commits suicide by downing a mouthful of sleeping pills. Barbara has an affair with an agent, gets only 10% of his affection and starts playing with dolls herself...