Word: season
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blimps and antennas are all very nice, but they are mere baubles compared with Houston-based rival Sakowitz's "ultimate gift" selections for this holiday season. Sakowitz is the store that in 1975 offered a bathtub full of diamonds for a cool $153 million. In 1974, they enticed Christmas shoppers with a Boeing 747 for $27 million, a 727 for $9.25 million and a 707 for $11 million...
Toys, not pets, are the mainstay of the holiday season, and New York's Hammacher-Schlemmer has several playthings for adults like a $49.95 astrological computer. Punch in your birth date, and this marvel of technological wizardry provides you with a personal horoscope and tells you what your personality traits...
...personal blimp are a bit extravagant. But what's a spoiled kid or a few hundred (or thousand or million) dollars when it all leads to more interesting holiday gifts? After all, if variety is the spice of life, unusual gifts are the frankincense and myrrh of the holiday season...
...shuddered at the news: Barbie was turning 20 this season. What would happen to the "teen queen" doll now that she was too old to go to the prom? Would she leave Skipper and P.J. to move in with Ken? Or would she forsake them all for the satisfaction of a career...
...John Danks (6-ft. 6-in.). Baxter, the only returning starter from last year's Longhorn squad, should lead the way, though Danks pumped in 27 points (11-14 from the field) to power UT to an 83-76 win over Northwestern Louisiana in the team's season opener last week...