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...guaranteed or your money back." Sears will take almost anything back, for almost any reason. In a company with so many products, some defective ones naturally slip through, no matter how stiff the controls. Sears has won a reputation for taking back goods without an argument. "I bought a sweater at May's, had it wrapped at Bullett's, got my change at Mandon's, left by way of Desmond's, and when I found it didn't fit, the only place I could return it was Sears, Roebuck," quipped Radio Host Phil Baker...
...knock-around wear, jeans are in a very stiff competition with muscle-tone fantasy and military madness. The pipestem ideal has been phased out by the beefy silhouette best paraded in a bevy of unisex exercise duds, from tank tops and crotch-clutching shorts to billowing workout pants and pastel sweatshirts. There are T shirts and flight jackets made of parachute silk by the gifted British designer Katharine Hamnett. The elaborate, intricately detailed pants concocted by Marithe and Francois Girbaud, whose various lines, made in the U.S., Europe and Japan, are characterized generally by looseness of fit, sternness of fabric...
...Stiff of bearing and devoutly Roman Catholic, Lieut. General Jorge Rafael Videla was a reassuring figure to many Argentines in March 1976, when he emerged as President of a military government intent on ending years of economic chaos and political violence. Then Videla led Argentina's armed forces into a four-year "dirty war" against terrorism, during which more than 8,000 people disappeared and hundreds of others were murdered and tortured. Last week the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces formally indicted and jailed Videla, 59, for his part in a program "based on methods and procedures that...
Hearing Layton issue a stiff command, Tucker said the director is not nearly so harsh as the first-night audience, Dare County citizens all. "The county is the toughest audience we have to play to. They talk during the performance until they hear a change. They don't care if your feelings are hurt...
...performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1977, Peter Nichols' musical play was a daft and bitter satire on Britain's declining imperial fortunes. A troupe of conscripted music-hall artists bumble and camp their way through post-World War II Singapore, drawing flak from their stiff-upper-twit major and sniper fire from local guerrillas. Alternating farcical skits with wicked song parodies, Privates was a near perfect stage piece, and thus an unsuitable candidate for filming. Some of the songs are gone; the plot is attenuated and detoxified; and Director Michael Blakemore (who also staged the R.S.C...