Word: scorcher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That disregard for the rules, that same off-you lunge for the heart of the melody, makes David Johansen, 29, the prodigious rocker that he is and makes In Style the streamlined scorcher of the year. Ten full-tilt rock tunes that give no quarter. Stand back; this man's a monster...
...heat-wave sales promised to snap the nation's air-conditioning industry out of a three-year slump that had been caused by successive summers of exceptionally clement temperatures. The industry's last good year was the scorcher of '73, when perspiring consumers bought a grand total of 5.3 million room-size air-conditioning units and 2.8 million central cooling systems. Then sales plunged, reaching a low of 4.2 million conditioners of all types in 1975. The manufacturers, led by five big firms-Carrier, Trane, Fedders, Lennox and General Electric-have also seen their air-conditioner sales...
Though the scorcher showed some signs of abating last week, at its height it sent temperatures from the tip of Lapland to the boot of Italy soaring into the 90s day after day. Palermo recorded 105°, Cannes 98°, Helsinki 90°. In Stockholm's outskirts, where the mercury rose to 95° for the first time since 1811, a heat-crazed elk burst out of the woods, plunged into a suburban swimming pool and splashed madly back and forth before finally being rescued by amused firemen. While Moscow shivered under cold blasts from the north that plunged...
...pair met at Columbia University, where Friedland attended law school and Dewey studied architecture. They shared an interest not so much in film making as in film commerce, so Lawyer Friedland incorporated them as the Cannon Group. They promoted $50,000 worth of independent financing to make a scorcher called Inga, a titillating travelogue of the sexual wanderings of a Swedish teenager. The movie was a smash in what show business calls "the sexploitation trade," grossing $4,000,000 for the two producers...
When a torrid billet-doux she once wrote to Dr. Christiaan Barnard hit the Italian papers, Gina Lollobrigida filed a loud complaint. La Lollo explained that she had written the scorcher in English, hardly her best language; it had then been translated into German by Quick magazine and finally put back into her native tongue by the Italian press. The result, she said, was something less than accurate. Whatever the message, Gina is suing both Barnard and his exwife, who published the letter in her memoirs. She loved the surgeon once, Gina confesses, but left him because...