Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Among those who pick it up: restaurants, retail shops, printers, electricians, florists, carpenters, security people and utility and telephone companies. Also advertising agencies and public relations firms, motor coach services, audiovisual equipment companies, duplicating and distribution services, auto rental and leasing, charter bus services and sightseeing tours, commercial and industrial equipment leasing, costume rentals and sales, court reporters and stenographers, entertainment booking and productions, exhibit design decorators, medical and first aid services, models, hostesses and talent services, photographers and, of course, hookers...
...Brink's gang looking like the Three Stooges on quaaludes. Falk and his cohorts Paul Sorvino, Allen Goorwitz and Peter Boyle (whose intermittent Irish accent has to be heard to be believed), all ham up their little peculiarities, but things never quite start rolling. The pace starts to pick up midway through the film, when Warren Oates appears as a half-crazed demolition expert whose plans to blow up the Brink's safe with a bazooka stun the rest of the gang into disbelief. But he's not on for long, and things quickly return to their former speed...
...little later, then writing for society and home sections. Ear began in June of '75, and now she has a reservoir of sources, mostly phone contacts. She says she only hits one party a week. (Only one! we gasp. How does she ever choose?) The answer: "I usually pick the ones with lots of media people. They tend to be the best gossips...
...questions of who should pick federal judges and how merit should be made the standard have never been as hotly debated or as important as now. Last October Congress passed the Omnibus Judgeship Act, creating 152 new federal judgeships, the largest one-shot increase ever. Given normal turnover on the bench, half of the nation's 643 federal appeals and district judges will owe their jobs to Carter by the end of his term in 1980. Says Leonard Janofsky, American Bar Association president-elect: "No modern American President has had such an opportunity to mold the shape and character...
...detail. The model in the Jontue ads is pictured leading a white horse; to Outdoorsman Bergerac the first horse that subordinates showed him looked like a sway-backed plow dragger. The boss bought his admen a book on horses and insisted that they study it to pick a more imposing beast. They chose an Arabian stallion that is now pictured in almost every Jontue ad and counter display?a hallmark of Bergerac's approach. He insists that a woman must find at the cosmetics counter the same symbol that may have caught her eye in an ad, so that...