Word: samplers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only its fifth week, Fernwood has yet managed to offend almost everybody. A rawhide sampler...
Mankiewicz ought to embroider that message on a sampler and nail it on the wall, because there is little love between Donner and Producer Spengler. Already Richard Lester, who directed both Musketeers, has been brought in as "consultant," a move that can only give pause to Donner, whose one major credit is The Omen. Donner further frets that Superman's superhype may backfire. "Look what happened to King Kong and The Great Gatsby," he moans. "I keep telling the producers to just let the picture open with only normal advertising. It'll sell itself...
Those who prefer martinis or soft drinks think beer drinkers are just a bunch of mugs. In fact, the true beer drinker is just as great a connoisseur as any sampler of Château Lafite. Beer tastings are a commonplace in almost every town that offers more than one beer to have when you're having more than one. In addition to domestic products, consumers check out the great German and Dutch prizewinners (some 6,000 local brews are available in those beer-loving nations), the Czech Pilsner, which many consider the world's finest, plus imports...
HORIZON (circ. 98,000; single copy, $2.50) has been around since 1958, but underwent such a face lift this year that any resemblance to the old, hardcover, quarterly coffee-table sampler of art and high culture is coincidental. The new Horizon will be a soft-cover monthly as of September, and light-years more lively. Artist Andrew Wyeth's naked Virgin was the cover of the May issue, and Dancers Mikhail Baryshnikov and Christine Sarry are whooping it up on the next issue. Inside the magazine are heavily illustrated essays on such trendy topics as discothèques, women...
Wherever she goes, Lily Tomlin takes her notebooks. And wherever she goes, she writes the maxims that zing through her act like ricocheting bullets. A sampler...