Word: rub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...courtesy and service which bonded shoppers and bred loyalty. Up to its final day of business on January 7, employees operated the store's elevators and delivery men drove dark green tracks along familiar routes. People came not only to stop, but also to make travel arrangements and rub shoulders with an eclectic crown of shoppers. Hudson's reportedly employed clerks of more than a dozen nationalities to accommodate immigrant customers...
...Christie Brinkley, 27, leaped to a task she was long destined for. "I grew up on the beach in Malibu," says she. "It was literally my front yard." A sampling of Christie's tips for Beauty and the Beach, which Simon & Schuster hopes to bring out this spring: rub potatoes on the back (good for soothing a sunburn), cover the eyes with cucumbers (eliminates puffiness), and to prevent dry skin, apply alligator pears. In short, real women don't eat avocados, they wear...
...banality by the panoramic artwork of Jorg Muller and Jorg Steiner. Gull's-eye views of the islands seem three-dimensional, and the huge pictures of ancient machinery and people have a Shakespearean sweep. "He always worked a triple-hinged surprise/ To end the scene and make one rub his eyes." So wrote Poet Vachel Lindsay about the master of the trick ending, O. Henry. None of his stories has received more notice than The Gift of the Magi (Neugebauer; $11.95); none is more appropriate to the season. As Christmas approaches, a young bride with long, luxuriant hair sells...
...showdown of two big stars. One film, Octopussy, stars Roger Moore, assaying Bond for the sixth time. The other, Never Say Never Again, returns Sean Connery to the character he originated 20 years ago in Dr. No but has not played since Diamonds Are Forever in 1971. Bondolators can rub their eyes in splendid disbelief: soon they will be seeing double 007s...
...Hamburg, F.D.P. leaders began to give more serious consideration to the idea of shifting their support to the Christian Democrats in Bonn. Though the Free Democrats received 10.6% of the vote in the 1980 parliamentary elections, their great fear was that the S.P.D.'s declining fortunes would eventually rub off on their own party. For the F.D.P, a substantial loss of support could be fatal. According to the West German constitution, any group that fails to win at least 5% is excluded from the Bundestag. Troubled by internal disagreements and trying to assess a possible shift in alliances...