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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fortunately, Ice Castles is one of those movies that play a lot better than they read in outline. Obviously the people responsible for this movie are fully aware of all the conventions governing stories about the rise, fall and eventual triumph of stars of sports and show biz (and figure skating is, of course, an intriguing blend of both disciplines). But the film makers do not abuse these conventions, which are for the most part understated, glanced off. The emphasis is on believable performance. In the leading role, Lynn-Holly Johnson, 19, formerly with the Ice Capades troupe, is more...
...BETTER AND FOR WORSE by Myrna Blyth Putnam; 304 pages...
...office Sara has two talents. She is a good editor and a better tease. Though nearly everyone on the staff of The American Woman is female, Neil Amberson, the top editor, is decidedly male, a discount sultan who sleeps with all of his editors once, then keeps them wondering why he didn't ask for seconds. Sara does get a return visit, in some of the raunchiest sex scenes in recent fiction, but it is all for nothing. She has misjudged who really has control of the magazine. Neil is on his way out, and Helene, his foul-mouthed...
Blyth is a witty, often hilarious writer, and few have written more tellingly about the avian world of women's magazines. But For Better and for Worse is only half comic. The other half is a sharp, unblinking look at the ways of men and women, shorn of doctrinaire feminism...
According to a new 140-page federal-state study, the only real solution is better drainage. An 82-mile-long system known as the San Luis Drain already exists in the valley. The study suggests using it as the basis of an even larger network. Underground drain pipes would carry salty water from individual farms to larger collection drains, which in turn would link up to a main 10-ft.-deep concrete viaduct. From its starting point, near Bakersfield, the viaduct would convey the salty water 290 miles away to Suisun...