Word: pie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perot also has mounted a million-dollar-plus ad campaign that trades frankly on the appeal of his Horatio Alger career and apple-pie patriotism. "For 38 years of my life I was a 'little guy,' " reads one ad. "There are so many of us. We are America. We make this big engine go. That's why duPont is interested in the individual investor." To make duPont more accessible to small investors, Perot has opened its offices six days a week. He has even suggested that U.S. stock exchanges stay open 24 hours a day so that...
...trouble. For the Union des Artistes in Paris, Actress Elsa Martinelli, wearing black opera hose, ran a couple of baby chimps through their paces. Dressed up as a bunny, Singer Jane Birkin popped out of a cake and walked a tightrope. The hit of the evening was a pie-throwing skit written by Director Claude Chabrol and starring Actor Marcello Mastroianni. Marcello then scrubbed himself down and returned for the 3 a.m. finale when the whole company dished up a giant vat of steaming spaghetti for the audience...
With a cunning apple pie face, Tatum seems typecast as Addie Pray, a preternaturally shrewd waif who hooks up with a conartist, played by her father, Ryan O'Neal. Soon she proves a defter swindler than O'Neal. She also seems more worldly, smoking, cussing and plotting dirty tricks. A pair of rag tag charmers, they sometimes earn their keep hawking Bibles to new widows...
...Wagner's turn to throw pie in the face of Rockefeller. After calling the GOP county leaders "peanut politicians," Wagner turned down the idea of a primary fight with Marchi, a fight he would surely have lost. A few days later, Wagner also rejected the Liberal Party's offer, claiming that he did not possess the consuming desire for the mayoralty that he felt was necessary...
PINNOCHIO'S ALSO serves a passable pizza, but his pie does not have the flavor that the one at the 24 Restaurant does. The cheese here is also very good and again my complaint is that not enough tomato sauce and cheese are used in making the pie...