Word: tires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...signed a million-dollar contract with Faberge to promote a new perfume called "Babe." In the movie, Hemingway plays herself--a rangy blonde beast with innocent eyes and a loose smile. In the "Babe" ads, she lies snuggled in a tuxedoed gentleman's arms as they float on a tire-raft on some cool body of water in the dusk. Both media peddle the same image--Babe, at once the child and the temptress, the pampered, beautiful, single woman who's rich enough to get her Halston...
...obscure hotels and sometimes hole up for weeks in a studio screening room, subsisting on cookies and milk while watching nonstop reruns of old flicks. The studio had few postwar hits; its executives revolted; and in disgust Hughes sold RKO in 1954 for a small profit to the General Tire and Rubber...
...their way to work. He had courted Jewish voters, though he knew their hearts were with Scoop Jackson; he had been cheered by students, who he knew were his own. Twice he had been attacked by radicals shouting "Fascist!" His motorcade had suffered the ignominy of a flat tire on the Grand Central Parkway. In the afternoon, he flew to Buffalo...
...looked like a small blaze, burning away with no apparent cause. Near by he soon found the cause-a freshly dug ditch with five smoldering bodies, two women and three young boys. Off to the side were a 5-gal. gasoline can, a shovel and garden fork, and some tire tracks...
Kissinger's 39 hours in Venezuela included a tire-squealing 60-m.p.h. climb from the sea-level airport up to Caracas, where Kissinger placed a wreath at the Simon Bolivar shrine. "Your Secretary of State is a Yankee torbellino [whirlwind]," marveled one Caracas motorcycle cop. Near the end of the visit, a local journalist asked President Pérez if Kissinger had broken the ice between the two countries. Pérez's reply: "Ice doesn't grow in tropical countries...