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Sisterhood was there in full force, and also some brotherhood. To raise funds for the faltering Equal Rights Amendment, Shirley MacLaine, Bella Abzug, Carol Burnett, Robert Altman, Chevy Chase, Norman Lear and 300 or so others dined on chicken and chili at Mario Thomas' place in Beverly Hills. "It's a life and death struggle,"' boomed Abzug. Burnett declared: "I've always been apolitical, but this is a moral issue." Besides, as she says, "I have an investment in the future. I have three daughters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 26, 1978 | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

Life begins at 54 for Liza Minnelli and Shirley MacLaine and Farrah Fawcett-Majors and Supermodel Cheryl Tiegs. Oh yes, and for Bianca Jagger and Tennis Star Vitas Gerulaitis and even Bella Abzug. Inside Manhattan's hottest disco, Studio 54, the elite meet to gyrate to the beat, watch the light show, gape and be gaped at. Since the club opened nine months ago, Photographer Adam Scull, son of Art Buff Robert Scull and his estranged wife, Ethel, has been there almost' nightly to snap the customers because, he says, "it's something that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 6, 1978 | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

Irwin Shaw (Beggarman, Thief), after complimenting himself on understanding women: "I'll tell you another writer who was ahead of his time on women. Shakespeare. Look at Rosalind, Portia. His women were key figures. Lady Macbeth was the Bella Abzug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 2, 1978 | 1/2/1978 | See Source »

...more efficiency and dispatch, more zest and panache than most conventions dominated by men. There was an infectious mood of ebullience that made women open, communicative and tolerant of slights. Never far out of camera range, stalking the podium like some watchful mother bear anxious for her brood, Bella Abzug mellowed considerably for the occasion. She even joked about the Congressman who scoffed that the girls had gone to Houston for boozing and carousing. Abzug's zinging putdown: "I have attended many meetings, but I have never heard any women ask for call boys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: What Next for US. Women | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...Bella Abzug, conference chairwoman, when asked why there were not more elderly women on hand: "Some of us are older than we look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Voices in Passing | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

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