Word: pickup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PROMISES, PROMISES follows all the hallowed tactics for promoting mediocrity into success. Jerry Orbach is splendid as the tall, gangling antihero, and Marian Mercer turns in the acting gem of the evening as an amorous alcoholic pickup. But the comic tone of Neil Simon's book is bland rather than pithy, and most of the songs of the Burt Bacharach score are interchangeably tuneless...
PROMISES, PROMISES follows all the hallowed tactics for promoting mediocrity into success. Jerry Orbach is splendid as the tall, gangling antihero, and Marian Mercer turns in the acting gem of the evening as an amorous alcoholic pickup. But the comic tone of Neil Simon's book is bland rather than pithy, and the songs of the Burt Bacharach score are for the most part interchangeably tuneless...
While Jerry Orbach is splendid, his performance lacks something of that subtle manic hysteria with which he fleshed out a man as well as a part in Scuba Duba. The acting gem of the evening is the bit part of an amorous alcoholic pickup played by Marian Mercer. Vocally, she slithers through her lines with the glissando of a soprano trombone. Her timing is perfect. She braces her body as if she could be pushed over with a swizzle stick, and she convicts the show of mere competence by her own distinction...
This year, there will be even more money to be divvied around, since makers of both light-panel and pickup trucks (55% of the 16 million on the road) and of the vastly more expensive behemoths of the highways will benefit from better sales. Trucking companies are pressing manufacturers for ever larger, more efficient, maintenance-free trucks and are willing to pay a higher initial cost to keep upkeep down. Last year, some 100,000 of the over-13-ton class were sold, mostly by Harvester, White Truck, Mack and CMC. The demand is such that their number is expected...
What makes truck manufacturers feel best of all is the resurgence of the good old pickup. "This year Mama's interested in pickup trucks," says Chevrolet's new truck-sales manager, O. H. Henry. "They have become a kind of second car." Altogether, some 100,000 new pickups will be sold in 1968 as "campers," which are $3,000 to $4,000 vehicles that have been upgraded to $5,000 and more to include extras...