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...Bruins, now leading 3-2 in games, fell victim to overconfidence and a tenacious Ranger effort in Tuesday's game which saw some atypical Boston scoring difficulties, notably on the part of Phil Esposito, and the offensive resurgence of Ranger retread Bobby Rousseau, who scored both the tying and winning goals...
Since Broadway is a trifle short of inspiration these days, the story of Applause is a retread of the 1950 movie All About Eve. A young actress, Eve Harrington (Penny Fuller), carefully masks her ambitions in order to insinuate herself into the friendship and concern of an established theater star, Margo Channing (Bacall). Middle age is the devil's prompter in Marge's mind, popping biting retorts in her mouth about the jeopardy of fame, and chilling qualms in her heart about her love affair with a younger director (Len Cariou). With serpentine guile and horizontal campaigning...
...bleach-blonde hair. One local television personality, Dercy Gonçalves, who has been thoroughly reshaped, is not in the least reluctant to discuss it. She has been known to close her TV program by cheerily confiding, "Well, next week I'm going to have a complete retread." Once, when she appeared on camera looking younger and trimmer than usual, she announced that casual sit-down chats with guest stars would be out of the question for the next few days. "I've had three operations on my face and one on my stomach," Dercy says...
Squeezed by the fast-rising cost of living, U.S. consumers are turning to cheaper models, thrift-type goods and do-it-yourself repairs on their homes and autos. In a sluggish retail market, sales of retread tires, home-barbering kits and sewing machines have lately shown substantial increases. The trend has even affected holiday celebrations. Last week the fastest-moving item in many U.S. liquor outlets was Cold Duck,* a mixture of domestic sparkling burgundy and champagne that generally sells for from $2 to $3 a fifth compared with about $5 for domestic vintage champagne...
Soon Vesta has made the poet "normal" and "sane" by making him no poet at all. Brainwashed into a wholly new identity, Enderby emerges as Piggy Hogg, an inarticulate London bartender and retread "useful citizen"-the welfare state's version of death and transfiguration...