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Olympics promotions usually have been a good investment. Gillette was one of the first companies to use the gimmick, peddling the official razor of the 1956 Melbourne Games. Sales nearly tripled during the sports extravaganza. Says John Musgrave, marketing director of the Lake Placid Winter Games: "The Olympics are a super advertising...
...club to hear a singer from the state of Bahia--the "bulge" in the northeast of the country--chant rhythmic, Brazilian music and then drive along the beach, listening to Emerson, Lake, and Palmer on the radio. But there are the adaptations. I learned that the Portuguese word for razor blade, gilete, is also slang for "bisexual" (two sides of a razor blade...
Maugham, who made millions with bestsellers like The Razor's Edge- and wise investments- saw his own literary value in a more positive light. He called himself a storyteller, "in the very first row of the second-raters." The appraisal was disarmingly accurate and deceptively aggressive: the highbrows in low tax brack ets could eat their hearts...
Another student, a freshman facing her first exams, panicked the night before her chemistry final. After cutting her wrist with a razor blade, she broke a window with her bare hand. She, too, recovered...
...estranged wife and current lover (played by the quicksilver dancers Leland Palmer and Ann Reinking) are virtually undisguised portraits of Gwen Verdon and the real-life Reinking. The hero's artistic associates are scabrous caricatures of past Fosse collaborators. Through a series of gritty backstage scenes and razor-sharp dance numbers, these players dramatize all the tensions, hard work and neuroses of idiosyncratic, inveterate show people. In Jazz's spectacular opening sequence, a Broadway audition, Fosse even creates his own capsule version of A Chorus Line...