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...spin-off from Gillespie, but it offered not so much as a toot. No sax, no horn, no clarinet. Instead there was a clean, nearly transparent sound made by piano, vibraharp, bass and drum...
Three lady cops will also join TV's criminal chase. The heroine of ABC'S Get Christie Love! (Teresa Graves) gets her man by sassily flouting the orders of her boss-and flaunting the best legs on the force. NBC's Police Woman (Angie Dickinson), a spin-off from Police Story, is only a sergeant. But Amy Prentiss (Jessica Walter), a rib out of NBC's venerable Ironside, is a chief of detectives in command of 260 (male) officers...
...other hand, Viva is for the woman with more sophisticated international tastes. It is a spin-off from Penthouse--both are owned and edited by Bob Guccione. He started Viva because out of the thirty million Penthouse readers--and lookers--eight million are women...
...Harvard Square on a scale comparable to the monument erected in Texas in his own honor by the departed Lyndon Johnson. This edifice will then be complemented by the development of new hotels, shopping centers and highways. And followed by the city wide expansion of the universities and their spin-off industries. The plan, even at the outset, will destroy the residential communities of Cambridge port and Riverside, where, already, homeowners are selling out to un principled real estate speculators who intend to turn the area into a land of mini condominiums priced beyond the pocketbooks of most present residents...
...racks are full of familiar visages, the icons of one's childhood, Mickey and Pluto and the others blown up to preternatural size, then guillotined; their eyes goggle from the shelves like big affable poached eggs. There is even a set of coolant waistcoats, their design a spin-off from NASA; they circulate a chemical refrigerant round the body. In this humid and swampy acreage of Florida, every hot duck on Main Street contains a hotter man wildly signaling...