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...take an affectionate look at "a girl growing up, coming of age in that period. For me, and apparently for many people in the audience, it's The Way We Were of the '60s." As the decade and the show progress, girl groups give way to woman singers, coy jingles to wham- bam sexuality. Says Pattie Darcy, 30, a blond soul stirrer whose repertoire embraces Gore and Franklin: "It shows women letting their hair down, washing the Aqua Net out, giving up their skintight skirts and high heels...
Tear gas too. On opening night, just as the dancers were starting a coy mating dance called Summer, the sellout audience at the Metropolitan Opera House was routed by a cloud of noxious gas that emptied the 4,000-seat auditorium and forced cancellation of the performance. (The radical Jewish Defense League at first claimed and then denied responsibility.) Next evening, amid beefed-up security, the show went off without a hitch...
Given the remorseless nature of her writing, Rendell, 56, is surprisingly coy about her attempts to comprehend the workings of the criminal mind. "I do research," she says in crisp British tones. "But not in the conventional sense." She does acknowledge that her son Simon, 32, a social worker who has emigrated to Denver, "was a children's officer and has been rather a help with psychopaths and with case histories, especially of children in care." She disclaims firsthand acquaintance with crimes and sounds positively appalled when discussing readers who write in with suggestions they have concocted: "I am always...
Prince is all over this film, running around in clothes that are somewhere between 13th century Paris fashion and New York new wave chic. Prince is lewd, rude and constantly coy with the audience and the camera...
...left a wake of look-alike haircuts wherever she went, participated in a tea ceremony, donned an elegant kimono in Kyoto and attended a sumo-wrestling match. As always, Charles scored points for his unstiff reserve, but the irrepressible Diana at one point displayed her own brand of coy diplomacy. Having noticed a Japanese parliament member dozing while her husband addressed the Diet, the Princess later good-naturedly asked if he had been asleep or practicing Zen meditation. The politician smoothly replied that he had closed his eyes the better to listen to the prince's speech. Wry Di thanked...