Word: shopped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Deep Throat. The crew worked twelve hours a day, seven days a week, and they were paid generously, averaging about $1,350 a month; Rodriguez managed to save enough during the operation to open his own haircutting shop near Sacramento. There were some perks too: menus featured filet mignon, roasts and lobster tails, while the entertainment included television shows and movies on video cassettes (most popular flick: Deep Throat...
...Interior Secretary Thomas Kleppe, 58, who made millions manufacturing cleaning products (including Glass Wax) in North Dakota before coming to Washington, plans to stay and may well shop for a business...
Warm, Witty. In 1933 Calder and his wife Louisa (a grandniece of William and Henry James) bought an old farmhouse in Roxbury, Conn., which became home for the artist's astonishing fecundity. His Roxbury studio resembled a tinker's shop more than some rive gauche atelier; wire and pliers and corrugated cartons filled with the flotsam of a lifetime lay about in splendid I-know-just-where-it-is disarray. There, and in the house near Tours, France, that he acquired in 1953, the sculptor would lumber about, creating a stage set for Martha Graham, fashioning coffee cups...
...than a matter of loyalty. A Carter victory guarantees a minor boom on Main Street. Contractor Abbett was already thinking about facilities for the Secret Service and Georgia troopers: "I hope I get my share of that work." Angie Stevens, manager of the Back Porch, a post-convention sandwich shop, had a forthright view of Election Day: "If he wins, we'll be here for five more years. If he loses-well, we've had a helluva good time...
...Terance Harold) Robsjohn-Gibbings, 71, elegant designer and interior decorator for such clients as Doris Duke and Aristotle Onassis; of a heart attack; in Athens, where he had lived since 1964. Robsjohn-Gibbings moved to the U.S. from his native London in the '30s and set up shop on Manhattan's East Side. To re-create the "timeless" furniture of the classic period, he spent years studying ancient Grecian art. A sprightly, caustic author, he took on the antiques business and modern art in two bestselling books: Goodbye, Mr. Chippendale (1945) and Mona Lisa's Mustache...