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...Black, 39 (Five Easy Pieces) and Sandy Dennis, 44 (The Four Seasons), Cher plays a garrulous cocktail waitress who is hired on as an extra in the 1956 James Dean-Liz Taylor movie, Giant, when it is filmed in her small Texas town. The play also marks the Broadway bow of Film Maker Robert Altman, 55 (M*A*S*H, Nashville), who anticipates no star-director skirmishes. "She won't be wearing her snakeskin suit," says Altman. "She'll be acting. And she's come into this on the same terms as everyone else-no limousines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 11, 1982 | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

...Beyond utility, however, there is also a desire to have a house that is prettier than the neighbors'. In Hegewisch, an industrial suburb of Chicago, one prideful owner < grafted some unlikely fieldstone siding and a bow window on a two-story cottage. Not too far away, in Chicago itself, a small house was rusticated, to use architects' jargon, by applying synthetic stone siding to the entire facade. The result was not unlike that of an Alpine goat-herder's hut. Archie Bunker may seem like a conformist, but he is, a heart, an individualist who rebels against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Curlers at the Block Party | 12/7/1981 | See Source »

December 3, 1:35 a.m.--An officer responding to a University Health Services call investigated an assault on a male student at the Bow and Arrow Pub. The student had been hit with a beer bottle by a woman at the pub and was receiving sutures on the head. The woman was arrested by the Cambridge Police...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Blotter | 12/5/1981 | See Source »

...have the exchange of tactical weapons against troops in the field without its bringing either one of the major powers to pushing the button." Haig set off a demonstration bombshell of his own by announcing that NATO had a contingency plan to fire a warning nuclear "shot across the bow," if needed, to deter a Soviet conventional attack in Europe; Weinberger said he knew of no such policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting from Zero | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

Kitty Kelley subtitles her book The Last Star, but she might just as well have said The Last Vamp. Taylor probably is the end of a line that stretches back to Clara Bow: flamboyant, outsize and so self-absorbed and utterly beautiful that anyone who comes near is likely to be drawn into her orbit by force of gravity. As Fisher puts it somewhat less kindly, "Elizabeth liked to collect trophies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Hurricane and Two Survivors | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

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