Word: coverings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reputation for being a very private person, often temperamental, always a perfectionist. She would not be an easy subject, warned her friends. But when Gelsey Kirkland agreed to be interviewed by TIME Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand for this week's cover story, she approached the task with the same dedicated professionalism that has made her at 25 the nation's youngest star ballerina...
Associate Editor Paul Gray, who wrote the cover story from Hillenbrand's reports and those of Reporter-Researcher Rosemarie Tauris Zadikov, was also impressed by Kirkland's candor and forthright approach when they met for an interview in her teacher's studio. A recent convert to the world of dance, Gray confessed he had indulged in a few Walter Mitty fantasies of joining her onstage. With that, she reached down and pulled off his left shoe. "Good extension," she judged as she tugged at Gray's foot while the nonplused writer tried to stretch...
Ethnicity is a cover for reactionary and segregationist policies, Orlando Patterson, professor of Sociology, said last night in a discussion with Michael L. Walzer, professor of Government, on ethnic chauvinism...
Saturday Night Fever. Since a major national magazine recently ran a cover piece on the Vietnamization of Hollywood, maybe a free-lancing stargazer somewhere will write something on the Italianization of its box office idols. John Travolta's disco-dancing Tony has joined Sylvester Stallone's Rocky as one of America's favorite silver screen heroes, and the similarities between the two films do not end there. There is the same low-budget feel to "Saturday Night Fever"--the obscure director, in this case a fellow named John Badham who seems bent on dazzling his audiences with bizarre camera angles...
...shouts and yells so loud that it was hard for brokers to talk to one another. After 15 months of steadily slumping prices, the market had taken a sudden and unexpected U-turn, sending short sellers, who make profits by betting on continued declines in stock prices, running for cover...