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Besides, the show is starting. Usherettes in mascara and Shalimar sell programs and herd the audience into the theater. Most of these socialites' names can be found under "publicity" in the back of this 71-page PR job, accompanied by a picture--in true Freshman Register style. The lights go down, a spot comes up on stage and Blake blunders into it like an oversized moth. He "doesn't quite know what to say," but the producers, practiced in this sort of thing, can say it all. Having been expertly guided through his performance, the star of Baretta stumbles offstage...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: Spotlight, Streetlight | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

...unseating of incumbents takes place this fall, the candidates to watch as the election returns drift slowly in (with PR voting, it often takes a week to figure out the winners) will be the four non-incumbents on the CC '75 slate. Of the four-John Brode, David Clem, Eric Davin and Mary Ann Preusser-each claims that he or she will be the lucky winner if CC '75 picks up a fifth seat, and the complexity of Cambridge voting makes it hard to tell the bluffers from the true believers. All four, of course, embrace the CC '75 platform...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: Liberals May Gain Majority | 10/30/1975 | See Source »

...knew as well as they did what good PR people could do with TV--I had seen TV lend piety to Richard Nixon and purity to Marilyn Chambers (the 99 and 44/100 pure Ivory Snow Girl who wound up Behind the Green Door). I have a feeling that the whole thing derived from that fateful eighth grade day of reckoning when my friends found out that all their favorite Westerns, the ones they had patterned their lives after, had been made--far from west Texas where they belonged--but in Spain...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Short and Sweet | 10/16/1975 | See Source »

Third Truce. Unlike Portugal's other former territories-Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, the Cape Verde Islands, Sào Tomé and Príncipe-the transfer of power in Angola has been complicated by the fact that there are three rival liberation groups. To patch up their differences, Agostinho Neto, 52, head of the Moscow-oriented Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.), Holden Roberto, 50, leader of the Peking-backed National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.), and Jonas Savimbi, 40, head of the moderate National Union for Total Independence of Angola (U.N.I.T.A.), met in Kenya...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANGOLA: War Among Liberators | 7/28/1975 | See Source »

...said be obtained sufficient indication of students' opinion of Besserman "even though the PR shill was not there...

Author: By James Gleick, | Title: Besserman Chosen As Senior Tutor For Adams House | 5/20/1975 | See Source »

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