Word: buffs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wife, directed by Gene Saks with the unerring control of a lion tamer of farce, is dotted with paralyzingly funny sight gags. One is provided by Lenny Baker, an immensely gifted clown, as he divests himself of each article of clothing, except his shorts (no one strips to the buff), with the chloroformed zeal of an inhibited zombie. Another is the foursome in bed poring over a sex manual as if it were the Das Kapital of the erotic revolution and deciding who is to be A, B, C and D in a horizontal power play...
...flowers and trees, Joan Mondale may do for art. To that end, she has crowded the turreted, Victorian Admiral's House that serves as the Vice President's official residence in Washington with 52 works by U.S. artists-sculptures, paintings and handicrafts. Joan, a longtime art buff, helped Martin Friedman, director of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, choose the loan collection from museums in the Middle West. "We tend to forget," she said, "that there is an active and deeply committed world of art out there between the East and West coasts...
Washington's arts lobby is encouraged by Carter as culture buff. Last week during a TV interview in New York, Opera Diva Renata Scotto turned to the cameras and declared: "I know that Jimmy Carter likes opera. But opera is a really big music and needs more Government support." Whether that is the kind of music that Carter wants to hear -given his budget-balancing promises -is still doubtful...
When doctors discovered last March that the slight hardening in the right breast of Eugenie Blaschko was a malignancy and that the cancer had spread to adjoining lymph nodes, they urged her to undergo a mastectomy. But Blaschko, 56, an exercise buff who swims year round in the California surf near her Long Beach home, adamantly refused to let surgeons remove the breast. Says she: "I decided I'd rather live a few years less and keep what I have...
...redoubt of the Wilson Jack Kramer Autograph and the Dunlop Maxply Fort, now offer such large and varied arrays of racquets that the average player is bound to be confused. Which of the gleaming new products will convert a peashooter serve into a Roscoe Tanner cannonball? Will the weekend buff find Chris Evert's steady groundstrokes in a $69 graphite frame by Yamaha, or is the operator so poor that the tool required is a $200 (unstrung) Aldila Cannon? The questions are important because the racquet is "an extension not just of arm but of self. Between points...