Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...idle boast. On Twig-gy's 98-lb. frame Justin built a mini-conglomerate. Besides Twiggy Good Times Productions, formed last October, there is an umbrella organization known as Twiggy Enterprises. Though Justin and Twiggy are now out of the fashion business, their organizations have in the past rented her name to Twiggy dolls ($1,000,000 profit in royalties) and Twiggy clothes ($300,000), and to Yardley of London cosmetics (around $1,000,000 over five years) for, among other things, eyeliners called "Twiggy Stix." "Deals, deals, deals," says Justin. "We do things as we get interested. That...
...away from assuming increased military responsibility. Though not wanting Japan to become a nuclear power, the U.S. would like it to spend much more on conventional armaments and exert more political influence in Asia. But Sato and Fukuda emphasized that they prefer to stay comfortably under the U.S. security umbrella for the time being...
Jodorowsky is similarly humble in the titles he gives to the four sections of the film: "Genesis," "Prophets," "Psalms," and "Apocalypse." "Genesis" begins with a man in black leather (Jodorowsky) riding on a black horse across the desert. A black umbrella shades his head from the sun. Behind him in the saddle sits his naked son, white against his father's blackness. They stop and father says to son in a deep, forboding voice that lets you know he's saying something heavy. "Now you are a man. You are seven years old. Bury your first toy and your mother...
Joan Tighe, media relations staff member of the People's Coalition for Peace and Justice (PCPJ) said yesterday that the new apathy has compelled a reordering of Movement priorities. The PCPJ was an umbrella group sponsoring the proposed rally...
There are three things that every Englishman seems to have: a pet, an umbrella and a Lew Grade story. As Britain's most prominent show-business entrepreneur, jowly, Goldwynesque Lew Grade enjoys a following that is not so much doting as anecdoting. His custom-made, 7¾-in. Cuban cigars are an indispensable prop of cartoonists. His multimillion-dollar deals get him lampooned as "Low Greed" in the satirical magazine Private Eye. He even has his own favorite story about himself. It concerns a little girl who asked him if he knew what two and two make. "Buying...