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...message, the ad agencies are signing up a host of aging TV and movie stars. Among the familiar faces: Wilford Brimley for Quaker Oats, Art Carney for Coca-Cola Classic, Barbara Billingsley and Jane Wyatt for Milk of Magnesia and Buddy Ebsen for McDonald's. Special modeling agencies have sprung up to meet the growing demand for mature actors for commercials. At the Ford agency, a division called Classic Woman offers a group of 30 models over age 40. Senior Class, a New York City agency started last year, books 200 men and women 50 to 80. Among them...
...early 1840s, the world's first portrait studios had sprung up in New York City and Philadelphia, churning out likenesses of glassy-eyed sitters who looked as though they had been whacked with a board. But it was in England and France that photography took on the character of an art in the work of men like the Parisian caricaturist Nadar, who brought a warm-blooded gravity to camera portraiture...
Some of the most ingenious schemes have sprung up in California, where prices are generally highest. To buy a $244,000, three-bedroom house last year in suburban Orange County, Elise and Rick Petree, engineers with a combined annual salary of $70,000, used an increasingly popular technique known as equity sharing. A private investor put up $22,950 for their down payment, and a local firm called CoEquity, which pioneered such deals in the area, provided $12,200. The Petrees invested $10,000 and now make $2,220 in monthly payments, including $1,872 to the mortgage lender...
Salman Rushdie is no stranger to exile, but past experience could hardly have prepared him for what he faces now. In fact, the situation is so preposterous that it might have sprung from Rushdie's own phantasmagoric imagination: someone suddenly emerges as the most talked-about writer in the world, but his life depends on becoming an invisible...
...book is one of many works that sprung up after Paramount Pictures reunited the cast in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Since that time, Star Trek fans have been bombarded with three movies, a series of some 45 novels and the new television series with its own set of novels...