Word: thin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With much fanfare, U.S. distillers last year brought on the market a new drink called light whisky. After years of effort, liquor firms got the Government to change its quirky distilling regulations and permit them to produce a smooth, flavor-thin whisky that they thought would appeal to modern tastes. A brave bevy of brands entered the lists Royal American, Galaxy, Honey-Go Lite, Free Spirit, Northern Light and others. Sadly for this latter-day charge of the Light Brigade, it has been Balaklava all over again. With Scotch to the right of them, bourbon to the left of them...
...admissions department send their thick and thin envelopes April 15, the CUE hopes to have the Faculty voting on a new calendar...
...Richard Rogers, and a tempo from Sir Arthur Sullivan, but when the band gets back to Melrose's score, it's slow going again. Still, it's the kind of show kindhearted audiences try hard to like, and the cast is already learning how to spread its limited talent thin. David Lewis does reliably unflappable matron Prune, waddling through both acts with his dignity intact even when his virtue has been lost. As the traditionally breathy and breasty torch singer, Tom Wells (Helza) has enough slink and alto in him to fill his shining jump-suit with credibility, and Mark...
...unless Bill Strong can re-write his book and lyrics into some better kind of shape, it's going to be a long-running clinker of a musical. Pudding shows were never supposed to get too wound up in the intricacies of plot, but Bayou's is stretched so thin it snaps between a few of the scenes...
...state of shock, a victim of bad luck and slipshod planning. Sales, it is true have been climbing-to 120,000 homes last year, from 81,000 in 1971- but they still constitute only about 5% of all housing starts. Profits on this low volume have been so thin that modular housing is now being abandoned by many of its would-be pioneers