Word: puff
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With an annual budget of more than $21 million, E.T. maintains a staff of 110 in Los Angeles, plus a bureau of 15 in New York City and reporters in Nashville, Atlanta, Miami and London. E.T. staffers and executives are sensitive about charges that the show is all puff and fluff, a p.r. agent's dream. "We're not curing cancer," says Co-Anchor Hendren. "We want to have fun with it." John Goldhammer, senior vice president at Paramount agrees: "We're not out there to nail people." And except for an occasional sitting duck like...
ANYTHING with as much publicity and general puff power as the Star Wars saga has received is just building up to a grand letdown. Those of us who were 13 when the original Star Wars came out immediately fell in love with it, dragging parents and friends to see it for the fifth and sixth times. The special effects were then amazingly original. We plastered our walls with Star Wars posters, traded Star Wars cards, and bought the famous Star Wars theme on vinyl. When we became sophisticated 16-year-olds in time for the second installment. The Empire Strikes...
...evidence has yet proved that exercise alone prolongs life, but that does not seem to bother those out there sweating. They maintain that they look better and feel better; maybe so, but they do keep pushing up sales of everything from running shoes to joggers' wristwatches as they puff along...
...Mart is based in the rolling Ozark hill country of Bentonville, Ark. (pop. 8,756). The sleepy mountain town was heretofore known chiefly as the birthplace of Louise McPhetridge Thaden, winner in 1929 of the first cross-country Powder Puff Air Derby for women aviators. Now it is famous as the home of Walton, an individualist who flies his own Piper Aztec, hunts quail, and is worth $500 million to $700 million...
Some dramatic revivals are like toys in an attic. One remembers them fondly. They look oddly shrunken and faded. At a touch, a faint puff of dust rises...