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...Jane Fonda's earlier off-to-Hanoi days, she was widely reviled as a combination of La Pasionaria and shrill brat. She has since become thought of as a fine actress. Her book on physical exercise is a bestseller, and she has a chain of body-fitness shops. She hasn't changed all that much; opinion has. In most American families, she is now regarded as the niece with strident and unpopular opinions that are accepted as part...
...both her profession and her form. Fonda is an ace saleswoman for her program because for a quarter of a century now she has reflected changing fashions in dress and image, politics and physique. In the '40s she was a movie star's brat, going chubby and haywire, while her father Henry played love scenes and went to war. In the late '50s Jane was a Vogue cover girl, fresh out of Vassar and mummified in heavy makeup. The early '60s saw her as Hollywood's all-American ingenue in Tall Story and Sunday...
Such a survivor. Such a complicated mass of neural wiring. Such a tangle of contradictions. His upbringing should have produced a temperamental brat. He peanut-buttered the neighbors' windows. As his endlessly indulgent mother Leah says, "His badness was so original that there weren't even books to tell you what to do." Steven Spielberg's precocious success might have created a pampered tyrant. But as Leah says, and as everyone who knows him agrees, "He doesn't have a blown-upness about...
...began with all eight runners clustered in a pack, but after five or six laps turned into a four-man race between O'Neal, defending champ Brat Rowe. Sheehan, and Schuler. O'Neal and Rowe battled each other for the lead, but coming around the last turn Row elbowed O'Neal and was disqualified. Neither Sheeham nor Schuler could catch the due and the Crimson pair finished two steps behind...
...Voters were uninspired by an old-style Washington insider who offered no stirring vision. Baker, who would probably be prime minister today if the U.S. had a parliamentary system of government, hopes to run for President again. Even those closest to the congressional brat from Hunts ville feel that his special blend of talents is best suited to the job he now holds. Says one of Baker's close friends: "If you're looking for a guy with a banner to lead the country, that's not him. He is a pro's pro. Howard...