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Garbed in a black skirt, leather cowboy boots and pearls--quite a contrast from the Amish habit she donned for Witness--the svelte blond-haired actress leaned forward in her chair, taking a long drag on her cigarette. "This is only what I believe, you know. There are no rules in acting. Everyone is an individual who has to make his own choices...

Author: By Lea A. Saslav, | Title: Actress Bears Witness to Hollywood Stardom | 3/8/1986 | See Source »

...mother. Now 76, with arthritis, she does two hours of Callanetics daily and looks as trim as her 46-year-old daughter. The author does an hour a week, in her book enough for most people. "I hate exercising," she groans. "It's a bore and a drag." Not like book publishing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Exercise in Best-Selling Lesson 3: | 3/3/1986 | See Source »

...says. The one skit he rejected: portraying a gay hairstylist. There was, however, much skirting of the bounds of propriety, including a catty reference to Reagan's first wife, Jane Wyman, and a portrayal of Nancy as a chain-smoking lush by an actor in Adolfo-like drag. One White House aide thought the whole thing tasteless. Said he: "Some birthday present to his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I'M Trying to Have Fun | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...calculated the orbit of a periodic comet that bears his name (it reappears every 3.3 years), insisted that the orbit of "his" comet could not be explained solely by gravity. He proposed that "ether," an invisible theoretical substance that at the time was believed to pervade space, exerted drag on the nucleus, slowing it down. After observing flares streaming from Comet Halley's surface in 1836, another German astronomer, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, conceived a more plausible concept, the fountain theory. Bessel proposed that a comet was a loose clump of particles. He suggested the flares were fountains of these motes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Greeting Halley's Comet | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

...best savored on a warm Friday evening along West Hollywood's main artery, Santa Monica Boulevard. There, a black-clad Lubavitcher family straight out of 19th century Lithuania strolls past a bus bench shared by a sneering heavy-metal-music freak with a slime green Mohawk and a drag queen done up as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. Across the way, a convenience store advertises European specialties in Russian Cyrillic characters. And up the boulevard rolls a procession of white stretch limos, trundling the show-biz glitterati (and their accountants and orthodontists) to West Hollywood's tonier night spots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In West Hollywood: Exotic Mix | 12/16/1985 | See Source »

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