Word: yore
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Whether she did it to catch a prince, like Rapunzel, or to avoid a taxing situation, like Godiva, the girl who took down her hair in days of yore never thought twice about the trouble involved. But then, why should she? She had nothing to undo but a braid or a ribbon and presto, crowning glorysville! It is only the modern maid who spends the better part of her days putting up her hair and is not about to take it down until she's good and ready...
...been bossed by Kendall, a onetime fountain-syrup salesman. Last spring he introduced Diet Pepsi, which has since captured more than one-quarter of the low-calorie-cola market. He also bought a West Virginia firm that makes Mountain Dew, sugar-rich citrus soda whose slogan is "It tickles yore innards." Mountain Dew sales are up 150% since September...
...even Hollywood's greatest epics of gore can hold a candle to those monumental battle paintings of yore. Every schoolboy knows General Wolfe breathing his last on the Plains of Abraham, the redcoats storming up Bunker Hill, or Washington crossing the Delaware...
...Night Walker is a lukewarm bloodbath, but it does afford Veteran Horrorist Barbara Stanwyck a chance to unleash her hysteria as of yore...
Belting it out are a group of rugged country cousins to the College Swing types that used to save the varsity show in Hollywood musicals of yore. These kids swing in an unfinished Moscow suburb called Cheremushki, "where skies are blue, and dreams come true," and where an empty flat gets heat in the summertime. "Don't worry, in the winter it'll be cold," quips Boris, a lumpish, curly-topped blaster on the construction crew. With everyone's dream swaddled in Red tape, and keys to the new flats hard to come by, Boris waltzes around...