Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then, lunch over, she trots off in the direction of Lincoln Center, where Violette is to be shown at the New York Film Festival. Elsewhere, at this very moment, producers are using her name to dazzle bankers, and writers are stubbing out cigarettes and typing lines that tell of bruised innocence. There are so many small, pale, lightly freckled and heavily troubled young women to play. So many older ones, when the wine has matured. She wants to do Lady Chatterley. She wants to buy some American jeans. The sun is shining on Central Park West, and the world...
...people behind Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? were really smart, they would have handed the whole film over to Morley. Unfortunately, they use the actor as an appetizer rather than the main course. About half an hour after the picture begins, Morley surrenders center stage to his romantic costars, Jacqueline Bisset and George Segal; Chefs suddenly ceases to be a jolly satire on the cooking craze and becomes an exception ally talky whodunit. The movie soon dies as ignominiously as its title characters - drowning in a stew of ketchup-colored blood and rancid red herrings...
...result, movie stars, TV personalities, politicians and jet-setters have been joined in the plastic surgery wards and clinics by secretaries, assembly-line workers, housewives and business executives anxious to fit into a youth-oriented society. Says Dr. Laurence LeWinn of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center: "If we were in China, people would want to have wrinkles put in so that they could be revered citizens. Here we have the wrinkles removed...
Even the successful facelifts sometimes fall far short of the expectations of patients who want to look like Robert Redford or Sophia Loren. Says Dr. Lawrence Robbins of Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach: "We can't change what they are. Plastic surgeons are not gods." Still, for those like Betty Ford who feel the need for outer rejuvenation, aesthetic surgery can be a godsend...
From his vantage point in center field, the Dodgers' Bill North gloried in the drama: "That was the best show I've ever seen. The game's best fastball hitter up against a kid who throws as hard as anybody in baseball. It was like the 15th round of a heavyweight championship fight and you knew both guys had won seven rounds. Bob just aired it out and said, 'Hey Reggie, here it comes. If you can handle it, you deserve it.' It had to end in a home run or a strikeout...