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Live with a musician, and the tension and jealousies become a web too complicated to negotiate. And for a rocker it's always easy to check out-poof!-and travel on to the next town...
...dancer, a pause in mid-career often has the effect of a cool breeze on a warm souffle: poof. But American Ballet Theater's Cynthia Gregory, rather than wilting during nearly a year's absence from the stage, has bounced back radiating warmth and vitality...
...labeled "the Boston three," composed of 6'6" leading scorer Carrington, Bill Collins, and Morrison. Despite its national ranking at the outset of the season in Sports Illustrated, B.C. has felled only two first-division teams in the course of the campaign, as its big time illusions have gone poof. B.C.'s fastbreak has been marred by sloppy ballhandling and the one-guard offense has yet to jell. After its most recent loss, an 88-70 drubbing by Villanova, one basketball pundit quipped, "B.C. opened a bakery to sell turnovers...
...investors must have thought that the figure came from Brezhnev himself. In three days of frenzied trading, Occidental's stock shot up from 11⅞ to 18¼. Then the puff turned into poof. Arriving in Moscow for major trade talks, Commerce Secretary Peter G. Peterson said of the Occidental agreement: "It is premature to call it a commercial deal." Occidental's stock promptly dropped to 15½ and closed the week at 15¼. Even so, President Nixon, who favors joint ventures between U.S. and Soviet enterprises, summoned Hammer upon his return for a private 45-minute...
...certainly not deprived. Active duty as a younger scion in the U.S. Army during World War I infects him with a fondness for fascism. After the war, under the gullible noses of the family's financial advisers, he transfers huge sums of money to Europe. Then, poof! . . . he disappears, to reappear in Zurich as surgically deformed Heinrich Kroeger, intimate of the German high command, the center of an international backer's dozen of tycoons who are underwriting Hitler. U.S. intelligence, with help from his abandoned wife and widowed mother, pursues Scarlatti through the capitals of the world, encountering...