Word: barbra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...business, his services as a designer and, most valuable of all, his name. Halston will now be free from the pressures of merchandising his wares and more able to exercise the fashion touch that has won him two Coty Awards (the fashion Oscar) and a clientele that includes Barbra Streisand, Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis...
...Canada with Trudeau's election in 1968 has withered. When they put him in office, Canadians thought that they were getting a lively Kennedy-like leader, and for a while he did not disappoint them. He appeared in the House of Commons in ascot and sandals, frugged, dated Barbra Streisand, and in general looked and behaved more like a playboy than in the usual stodgy manner of Canadian Prime Ministers. He also fashioned solid accomplishments such as his firm handling of the separatist crisis in 1970, pushing a tax reform through the Commons and opening relations with China...
...Bank Dick, starring W. C. Fields as Egbert Souse (accent grave over the e), the bank guard. A classic, especially the chase scene at the end. 4:30 p.m. on channel 38. Funny Girl, starring Barbra Streisand as Fanny Brice, with Omar Sharif and Walter Pidgeon to back her up. Won lots of Oscars, accolades, etc. 7:30 p.m. on channel...
Steve McQueen and Barbra Streisand were there, as were Eugene Carson Blake, former General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, and Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein. So were ten Democratic Senators and twelve black members of the House of Representatives, as well as the New York Times, the Washington Post and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and (would you believe?) Joe Namath...
...recent Hollywood benefit for Pentagon-papers Defendants Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo, even the invited luminaries paid $125 each to get in, and Barbra Streisand agreed to sing to anyone over the phone for $3,000 a song. The resulting $50,000 haul was impressive, but the money quickly evaporated. Ellsberg and Russo are finding out that while the price of liberty may be eternal vigilance, the cost of justice can be astronomical. Their trial, which is now nearing an end, will have cost the defense between $900,000 and $1,000,000; the prosecution tab may reach...