Word: wax
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hollywood people do nothing in twos or even fours. Studios will be watching the returns on these movies closely because many more musicals are on the way. Hot Wax, the story of a '50s disc jockey, is already in production, as is FM, a film about a rock radio station, and Thank God It's Friday!, about a Los Angeles discotheque. Neil Diamond wants to do a remake of The Jazz Singer, and Dustin Hoffman and Lily Tomlin will star in a musical version of Popeye. Annie, the Broadway hit, was just bought by Columbia Pictures...
...wings of Air Force One, glistening in their new coat of Glass Wax, have swooped through the skies of Eastern Europe and ancient Persia. Jimmy Carter's Georgia gang have dined aloft on steak and eggs, chewed Doublemint, and sent home their first dispatches from their airborne odyssey...
Evangelicalism's practitioners are quick to defend themselves. Says Jim Bakker, high-pressure preacher of TV's P.T.L. (for People That Love) Club: "If Johnson Wax didn't have an identifiable name, how would one know to buy it?" An even bigger star, Billy Graham, mildly invokes the great Evangelicals of the past to defend the jet-setting and electronic gimmickry that have become a part of his calling. "John Wesley had to go on horseback. George Whitefield had to spend all that time crossing the Atlantic 13 times. They used to have to shout at the top of their...
Wondrous as they are, the new games are not without their flaws. Code Name: Sector, the submarine chase, has a dandy digital readout, for instance, but the courses of the sub and the pursuing warships must be drawn on a chart with a wax crayon-which, as all twelve-year-olds will recognize, is not exactly state-of-the-art technology. Comp IV and Chess Challenger are not quite smart enough to bamboozle a good human player; Gammonmaster II plays its roles well but was rushed onto the market without a doubling cube (though one is in the works); Electronic...
...continuity of Mass PIRG's efforts during the year and over the years explains much of its success. Unlike many, if not most, activist student groups, Mass PIRG does not wax and wane according to the time of the year. It has staying power because the student members of PIRG hire (and fire if necessary) professionals--lawyers, economists, MBAs, and public health experts who carry through projects when students are occupied with exams, papers and vacations. When students move out of the state at the conclusion of their undergraduate studies, the staff is there to see that other students carry...