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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Press
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1970
Page
6
A humorous ramble about holiday chaos for the kids, the lure of booze and parties, wardrobe obsessions with maxi coats and mini skirts, and witty quips on boots, dating tests, and office tech. The speaker jokes about daughter quotes, fashion costs, and a quirky penguin dating result.
A columnist muses on an obscene call, a prank campaign, and rising long distance rates. He riffs on Japan calls for 12 dollars, Christmas self gifts, a 22 year old Miss USA, and hype around supersonic jets predicting two hour Europe flights by 1972. He ends with a thought on living with fallout from the nuclear era.
Special to the Press profiles Sharon Farrell once unknown from Sioux City Iowa now rising in film. She rejects puff biographical sketches and details her hard early work on off Broadway summer stock Sears catalogs and 68 TV dramas. She blasts nudity in Hollywood as degrading and explains she will not perform explicit scenes. Farrell plans a self financed project about loneliness and recounts a wild interview style and belief in a lucky system sparked by a religious TV appearance.
Two thousand Tokyo firemen perform acrobatic stunts atop ladders at the annual Dezome shiki review. Held January 6 at Meiji Shrine outer garden, the event honors the fire brigades with uniforms echoing the Edo period. The revived tradition since 1975 draws tens of thousands of spectators and showcases agility and presence of mind in perilous feats.
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