Word: buff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bethany Nazarene College at the age of 18, he was shy, serious and determined to leave the small-town boy behind. Over the years, he changed his name from Hartpence to Hart, changed his age to make himself a year younger, changed his signature, became a movie buff and began drinking margaritas (in moderation). His circle of friends broadened from Duane Hoobing to Warren Beatty and Shirley MacLaine. An antiwar activist in the late '60s, he obtained a commission in the Naval Reserve in 1980 at the age of 44. He wanted to be ready to serve...
Since she developed a knack for turning big behinds into big bucks, Activist-Actress-Activity Buff Jane Fonda, 46, has been speaking out more against flab than against the Government. But when Fonda announced plans to promote her new line of sweats and other workout clothes in a series of department stores throughout the country, a wave of resentment from her political past washed out her personal appearances one by one. Hundreds of angry callers, citing her antiwar actions during the Viet Nam era, detoured her scheduled stopovers in New Orleans, Miami and New York City (though she made quiet...
...catastrophe seemed a nightmare from which the descending curtain would deliver the audience. Now Harrison, a strangely serene fatalist of a patriarch, has come to Broadway in Anthony Page's more earthbound revival. These are not Olympians playing at mortal games but overage children playing blindman's buff as the apocalypse closes in on them. Still, they are Shaw's creatures, and in this splendid, savory play they can still beguile. As the daughters, Harris (who takes Rigg's role here) has a madcap-heiress presence, charming herself no less than the others, and Dana Ivey...
...drove away. This was five or six minutes before the time that Tippit was murdered. So, according to proponents of this theory, Tippit was assigned to kill Oswald after Oswald had incriminated himself, but that Oswald had learned of it and had killed Tippit. Jack Ruby was a police buff who was forever hanging around police headquarters, partly because of a very long rap sheet and a desire to cultivate as many law enforcement friends as possible. Nothing concrete ties Ruby and Tippit together, nor does anything substantially link Oswald to either...
...Diehl, 25, a New York City actress whose previous appearances include an off-off-Broadway production of Henry IV, work as an extra in Francis Coppola's upcoming Cotton Club and TV plugs for Paterson Silks and Pergament paint. How does she feel about peddling panties in the buff? "It's not exactly Shakespeare," says Diehl, "but it beats selling paint." Even if it is a shade off-color...