Word: agee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long as Bogart, Cassady, Kerouac and all the rest are not around to complain, they look livelier and livelier to the Hollywood idea men in the age of gossip. Trouble is, complains Rod Steiger, a man who has already portrayed ten historical characters on the screen, including Napoleon and W.C. Fields, the wrong shades are being called back from the dead. "Joan Crawford? That's entertainment value. But go out and try to do the life of Beethoven or Albert Schweitzer or Einstein. You march into a producer's office and say you want to do Einstein...
Unsentimental? Hardly. Colette's self-portraits were coy, her prose humid with nostalgia; but Phelps ignores these failings. Belles Saisons is a gesture of hom age, not a work of criticism. This is not the first Colette album; only three years ago, Yvonne Mitchell published Colette: A Taste for Life, a generously illustrated biography that reproduced many of the photographs included here, and with a far more comprehensive text. But Co lette was inexhaustibly photogenic. "There were no more beautiful eyes in the world," declared her last husband, Maurice Goudeket, "nor any which knew better...
Ballroom. While it beats, the heart defies time. Dappled by the shimmering lights of the Stardust Ballroom, the couples whom Director-Choreographer Michael Bennett sends swirling across its floor are cradled in hopes and dreams unmocked by middle age. An entrancing musical with a rare grace note of affection...
...read my lips problem By promising never to raise the retirement age, cut benefits or raise payroll taxes, Gore banks on the surpluses created by the good economy to pay for the baby boomers' retirement. If the economy goes into recession, Gore will have a painful choice: go back on his word, or take money from the rest of the budget to pay for Social Security (which could mean raising income taxes, cutting spending in such programs as education and health care or running up annual deficits...
...move toward privatization does not have to be all or nothing. In recent years leading thinkers from both parties have proposed a combination of the Bush and Gore plans: establish a high guaranteed minimum-benefit level that keeps seniors from falling into poverty, gradually raise the retirement age to 70 (which could cut the program's projected deficit by two thirds) and allow workers to invest a sixth of their payroll taxes, as well as additional voluntary contributions (possibly matched by government dollars), in low-risk stock or bond funds. Such a plan, says Donald Marron, CEO of Paine Webber...