Word: bows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Palm Beach. "I was 73 the other day," says Martin. "My body doesn't have the resilience. People think it does because that's all they see. But the next day . . ." Channing, 63, who first met Martin when both were working on Broadway in the '40s, will also bow out. "I wouldn't consider doing it without Mary. The whole idea was doing it together." The legends may be leaving, but Legends will go on, perhaps even to Broadway in the spring. Alexis Smith is among those being considered for the task of following one of the ultimate hard acts...
Bang. The curtain's down. You're no longer a star. At least you have a bow to take...
There is perhaps a touch of the dilettante in a man who -- with his eager, miss nothing eyes framed by horn-rims and a shy smile centered above his bow tie -- still looks like a cartoonist's vision of the brightest boy in class. But the intellectual restlessness that has kept Schlesinger circling from academic pillars -- Harvard, City University of New York -- to government and journalistic posts may have brought forth a certain freewheeling agility in the essayist...
...American soul. The idealist's "excessive righteousness" combines with the Bomb to make Schlesinger reluctantly "apocalyptic," provoking him to his deepest moments. Nearly 25 years ago, he wrote that "history has always seemed to me primarily an art, a branch of literature." Today his neatly combed hair mussed, his bow tie askew, as it were, he writes with a new passion, as a vigorous elder concerned that the earth survive for future generations. It is an irony that he would be the first to appreciate: when he sounds least like a liberal, he sounds most like a historian...
Time "delves the parallels in beauty's brow," wrote Shakespeare. Today he could wryly add, "So plastic surgeons to your very wish will bow." Over the years, the cosmetic wizards have conjured many escapes from the ravages of age, from chemical peels to skin abrasion to surgical lifts. Now they are wielding a new magic wand: syringes filled with collagen. Injections of the whitish gel smooth away time-worn creases as well as acne and surgical scars. And at a relatively affordable price: treatments run $300 to $1,500, about a third of the price of a typical face-lift...