Word: dickinson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well, a time both for reflection and for looking ahead. Thanksgiving is a kind of pause between seasons ("a little this side of the snow and that side of the haze," wrote Poet Emily Dickinson). This year the holiday also marked a political pause. A defeated Administration was tidying up loose ends before vanishing into history; a new Government was organizing itself to take over. The nation seemed to be looking forward, not with exuberance, but with a more realistic mood that mingled relief and hope. There was relief that the strident echoes of a divisive and interminable campaign...
...public bath: the wife cringes in embarrassment as a real native not only edges closer to make conversation but threatens to stand up to welcome the outlanders. The California Avocado Commission promotes the nutritional value of its green "love food" with the help of aging Sex Symbol Angie Dickinson, 49, who in December will sprawl across two pages of recipes in some 18 national magazines. The copy asks: "Would this body lie to you?" Ads for B.V.D.s, now made by Union Underwear Co. in Bowling Green, Ky., are heavy on beefcake: one has a cowboy happily shaving...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Angle Dickinson, 49, star of TV (Police Woman) and movies (Dressed to Kill); and Burt Bacharach, 51, composer (Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head, What the World Needs Now); after 15 years of marriage and four years of separation, one child, a daughter, Nikki, 14, whose custody Dickinson is requesting; in Los Angeles...
...only to rebound to the Casablancas stable. The most telling deserter from Wilhelmina was Patti Hansen, who disports her form in Calvin Klein jeans and has just finished acting in Peter Bogdanovich's film They All Laughed. In all, some 20 Ford stars-led by sultry, pouty Janice Dickinson and Christie Brinkley, the Chanel No. 19 girl-and a dozen young "boppers" from other agencies also joined John. (Brinkley ended up back with Ford last month.) Considering that an agency makes commissions of 10% to 20% on a star model's $200,000-plus annual income, such defections...
...characters in Dressed to Kill are not candidates for compassion or figures of raunchy fun. They are animated mannequins-the wandering housewife (Dickinson), the loving son (Keith Gordon), the harried hooker (Allen), the patient psychiatrist (Michael Caine)-whose only function is to attack or be attacked, to play villain or victim. The plot has so many coincidences and contradictions that the moviegoer is left with only one option: to savor Dressed to Kill as an exercise in directorial style...