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...queen with a head cold," Toddy sniffles as he contemplates being down and out in Paris, 1934. He has just lost his job in a gay nightclub, his lover has left him, and his new roommate, Victoria (Julie Andrews), is a singer with a voice that can shatter glass but not the indifference of booking agents...
Wayne Gretzky scored three goals in the third period last night to shatter Phil Esposito's league mark of 76 goals in a season and help the Edmonton Oilers to a 6-3 victory over the Buffalo Sabres. The goals were Gretzky's 77th, 78th, and 79th. "I'm glad I got it: it's a tremendous feeling," Gretzky said after the game...
Perhaps most ominous, the administration is seriously considering "solving" the waste problem by using waste plutonium from the civilian reactor program to make nuclear weapons. This measure would shatter once and for all the convenient fiction of an "Atoma for Peace" program completely distinct from its more sinister cousin, the military...
Inflation and changing life-styles have combined to shatter the jukebox market. The price of a typical machine has risen from under $1,900 five years ago to nearly $3,000. Yet operators are afraid to raise the normal 25? price per play for fear of driving away business. Result: fewer jukeboxes are being installed...
Watching Horowitz unsuccessfully trying to shatter glass with a high note recorded on Memorex tape is a little like watching Houdini expose a séance. Commercials are viewed as a kind of ghost hunting; the greater fun is for viewers to see how they are being fooled, to see the bamboozler bamboozled. Most of the products Horowitz tests pass with high marks-he estimates 75%-but the blood sport is watching the advertisers turn into bozos when Horowitz can't wipe the scrawl off the Sherwin-Williams paint job, when three dozen eggs (out of 14 dozen...