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...with a remarkably low decolletage. Heads turn as she passes, leaving a wake of admiring comments. Men seem bent on cornering women, on getting them away from possible competitors, but they rarely succeed. The ratio isn't that good yet, apparently. No one remembers names. Someone actually asked his companion what his SATs were. A guy wearing a Lacoste shirt (the international symbol of preppiness) climbs the stairs in Weld North, claiming he is "trying to perfect his preppie image...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: That Velveeta-Like Sameness | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

...phantom: its editors on occasion run the kind of features they feel would have been whipped up by Felker. The results can be disastrous. A notable example was a cover story in July based on the premise that since Governor Jerry Brown was 39 and unmarried (though a frequent companion of Linda Ronstadt's), he would be a likely target for antihomosexual smears in next year's gubernatorial race. Even Felker was moved to protest from the sidelines. Said he: "It was not the kind of story I would have run. It's got nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: California's Magazine War | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

...hooked on cocaine, a fact he now includes in his comedy routine. "I snorted up Peru," he says. "I could have bought Peru." Married and divorced three times, he has four children-three girls and a boy. A long-term relationship seems beyond his grasp, but his main companion right now is Pam Grier, who played his wife in Greased Lightning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A New Black Superstar | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

...lifestyle. The difficulty is evidenced in this month's nudie Playmate, the magazine's famous foldout. Along with 14 undressed pictures of a 20-year-old blonde, the text explains that she has landed a top role, "that of Hef's more-than-occasional companion." Tax man, how would you score that? Business promotion? In fact, one of Playboy's problems is its narcissistic photographic preoccupation with Hefner's Playboy mansion, which must do untold damage to his assumed reputation for sophistication. Surrounded by young beauties, he looks a dour sybarite Square. Hefner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEWSWATCH by Thomas Griffith: Merchants of Raunchiness | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

...starving dogs, by the filth and public defecation. He was exasperated by the religiosity and pretense of "a nation ceaselessly exchanging banalities with itself." Yet he keeps returning. In India: A Wounded Civilization, based on his fourth journey in 14 years, Naipaul, now 44, is as fascinating a traveling companion as ever; but this time he is vastly more composed as he describes what he perceives to be the Indian predicament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lest the Past Kill | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

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