Word: capes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strides through Metropolis with a heavy, sexy gait, as if John Wayne had just discovered his libido. A three-day beard prickles the lantern jaw. His hair has lost that Wildroot sheen, and the brilliant red cape has turned a dirty maroon. Even the cape's bold insignia looks tarnished: the S coils like a sinister serpent. From every corner of the Big Apricot, citizens avert their eyes, hardly daring to whisper: Can this be ... Superman...
...sorceress Morgan le Fay in a three-hour CBS epic due this fall called Arthur the King, based on the Round Table legend. "I was relieved not to play the phlegmatic princess," says Bergen. "I like taking things in my own hands." Or talons. Dressed in a darkly feathered cape and one of the alltime great fright wigs, Bergen as Morgan swoops and plots against her half-brother Arthur, played by Malcolm McDowell. "I cast spells, fly, disappear at will and have a dungeon that looks like a fully equipped gym. It's every girl's dream...
...finish line the day after his 31st birthday. At the start of the race, Jeantot was unknown to the racing world, though he had made four single-handed Atlantic crossings. Yet on the first of the race's four legs, the 7,100-miles from Newport to Cape Town, he piled up a one-week, 1,500-mile lead over his nearest competitor. That was the way it went, around the world; across the southern reaches of the Indian Ocean to Sydney, Australia; through the roaring forties and raging fifties of the southern ocean to Cape Horn, the sailor...
...muscular, 163-lb. athlete who has a black belt in judo, Jeantot walked off his floating home at Newport as jauntily as if he were returning from a stroll. Of the few bad times during the voyage, the worst, he said, came between Sydney and Cape Horn, when he had to go far south to pick up the prevailing westerly wind. For 13 days near 58° south latitude, he never saw the sun and at tunes could not even see the top of his mast. "Everything on board was wet and cold," he recalls, "and it was dangerous when...
Sensing the disarray in his life and work, Wilson resolved to regroup. The former habitue of cheap apartments and rented rooms writes of buying a house on Cape Cod. He outlines a never-completed novel about lives in transition. There are amorous adventures and travels to Greece, Haiti and New Mexico. He continues to survey the literary scene with visits to a suspicious and embittered Evelyn Waugh, to a mourning John Dos Passos, "whose voice would seem about to choke or tremble," and to a Roman convent where Philosopher George Santayana "slept, in his plain single bed, in the consciousness...