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...another fruit, canned or frozen, such as peaches, raspberries, or fruit cocktail...

Author: By Dora Y. Mao, | Title: Recipes for a Dorm Room | 12/8/1982 | See Source »

...studying with Lee Strasberg and Elia Kazan at the prestigious Actors Studio (with, among others, Geraldine Page, Rod Steiger and James Dean). Then Warner Bros, offered him a long-term movie contract starting at $1,000 a week. Abruptly he found himself wearing what he called a "cocktail gown" and playing a Greek slave named Basil in a religious costume saga, The Silver Chalice. It was the sort of absurdity that Virginia Mayo used to appear in, and she was in it. Newman, who is self-conscious about his bony legs, was so abashed that, as he points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Newman: Verdict on a Superstar | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

Representatives of more than 850 firms will hold interviews and throw, cocktail nparties for second and third-year law students over the next month in what has long been the largest single stop for the lightly lucrative employment bandwagon...

Author: By Merin G. Wexler, | Title: Prestigious Firms Court Students | 10/29/1982 | See Source »

...lonesome ballad "Just a Housewife," the sarcastic opening line of the prostitute (Martha Hackett)--"Well, I didn't want to be just a housewife--comes like a slap in the face. Each speech and song brings a new twist--a corporate executive is numbered among the hunted unhappy, a cocktail waitress keeps herself euphoric through a curiously empty pride...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: It Works | 10/26/1982 | See Source »

...life: "The author [Bech] in these thin times supported himself by appearing at colleges. There, he was hauled from the creative-writing class to the faculty cocktail party to the John D. Benefactor Memorial Auditorium and thence, baffled applause still ringing in his ears, back to the Holiday Inn." Did Updike, invited by the Franklin Library, once agree to sign 20,000 volumes of Rabbit Run on the island of St. Thomas? Bech is lured by Su-perbooks, a subsidiary of the Superoil Corp., to autograph 28,500 sheets, at $1.50 each (Updike was paid a bit more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Perennial Promises Kept | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

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