Word: comerence
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...recorded one of their tunes, Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer, as a duet with Kim. That chart pacer paved the way. Carnes had a successful follow-up single on her own, but Bette Davis Eyes could become the kind of standard that turns a comer into an institution...
...with most nighttime soaps, is simplicity itself. Lane Ballou (Cristina Raines), a good girl from the bad side of nowhere, comes to Truro, a small Florida town. There she attracts the attentions of both Sam Curtis (John Beck), a tomcatting entrepreneur, and Fielding Carlyle (Mark Harmon), a political comer who weds Constance Wei-don (Morgan Fairchild), the snooty illegitimate daughter of Whorehouse Madam Lute-Mae Sanders (Stella Stevens) and Millowner Claude Weldon (Kevin Mc Carthy), who is married to the patrician Eudora Weldon (Barbara Rush), whose affair with the town's newspaper editor, Elmo Tyson (Mason Adams), may have...
...Niro to display his own explosive art. He trained as a boxer for months, until La Motta, who coached him, believed the actor could be a contender; he gained 50 lbs. in two months to play the aging Jake. As Jake in 1941 or Jake in 1964, as comer or loser, as raging-bull boxer or battering-ram husband, shouting obscenity or whispering apology, De Niro is always absorbing and credible, even when his character isn't. When the film is moving on automatic pilot, De Niro is still sailing on animal energy, carrying his able, unknown co-stars...
DIED. Joseph Banks Rhine, 84, father of experimental parapsychology in America and comer of the term extrasensory perception; in Hillsborough, N.C. Fascinated by psychic phenomena after hearing a 1922 lecture on the subject by Sherlock Holmes Creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rhine later helped establish one of the nation's first parapsychology laboratories, at Duke University. His 1934 book, Extra-Sensory Perception, documented laboratory-controlled demonstrations of clairvoyance and telepathy and made ESP a household term...
...Congressman Charles Rangel and Richard Hatcher, mayor of Gary, Ind., Ford commutes between Washington and New York City, where he is head of NOVA (New Opportunities for Voter Action), aimed at harnessing political clout for blacks. Says Sutton: "Ford has poise, balance, intelligence and is 'relevant' ... He's a comer...