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Children love him because his daffy repertoire of Ork language can be mimicked endlessly. Already Mork's "nano, nano" (translation: hello) has replaced the Fonz's "aaaayyy" as the catchword of the nation's kids. Adults like his spontaneous riffs. On one program he launched into a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Manic of Ork: Robin Williams | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

During his years at the State House, Connolly earned the reputation as a rhetorical "daffy"--an equally clownish counterpart to his opponent's melodramatic, bleeding politalk. One keen observer noted, "It's kind of like a high school election for class secretary."

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Yes Virginia, There is an Auditor | 11/6/1978 | See Source »

If Gordonstoun and Timbertop helped mold the young Prince's sense of duty, Trinity College at Cambridge?his next stop, by family decree?opened up his personality. Charles is a slow but dogged study; his bachelor's degree from Trinity was only an undistinguished "second class, division two"?a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Man Who Will Be King | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

The film's most sustained triumph belongs to Clayburgh. Erica is the role this gifted actress has deserved for years, and now that she has it, she doesn't fool around. She swings gracefully from mood to mood-from hostile confrontations to hysterical shrink sessions to intimate and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Love the Second Time Around | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

JEROME HANNA DEAN, alias Dizzy, who threw baseballs for a living for the St. Louis Cardinals in the days when a free agent was just an unemployed spy, knew more about the sporting life in America than most people who get paid to write about it. Dean was a self...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Diamond Chippers | 7/1/1977 | See Source »

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