Word: entertain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Live Rich. Beverly Pepper has never been inconspicuous as a person. "You don't have to be rich, you just have to learn to live rich," she says. She and her husband, Author-Journalist Bill Pepper, observe that rule diligently in their 14th century castle, where they entertain spiritedly. But her present work leaves no room for doubt that after a late and faltering start as a sculptor (she began in 1960, carving up the trunks of trees that had been felled in her garden), Pepper today is one of the most serious and disciplined American artists...
...rabbit's reputation rested mainly on a swift (wham, bam, thank-you ma'am), productive (litters the year round) procreation. Then Hefner air-brushed its aura and made the rabbit the symbol of his whole slick fantasy world. But when you're inventing fantasy to entertain your children during a long, boring car trip you leave out the details that enrapture the slavering American male. You retrograde modern romance, back to Northrop Frye's original "love and adventure" formula, away from modern "lust and bloodlust." And you even leave out most of the "love," to concentrate on your heroes-intrepid...
...patchwork, We Are Your Sons is held together by the authors' faith in their parents' complete innocence. Yet between the jury's guilty verdict and the chance of a total frame-up is a possibility that the true believers-on both sides-would probably not entertain: that the Rosenbergs were guilty of low-level spying and the Government trumped up additional evidence and coached witnesses to turn a weak case into a sensational show trial. The truth may be resting uneasily in those unopened Washington files. · R.Z. Sheppard
...sprained ankle, but the injury did not stop him from uninhibitedly demonstrating a self-choreographed twist-and-shake step he calls "Soul Train." Nor did the sedate surroundings squelch his urge to sing a few bars from the rock song Philadelphia Freedom in an uncertain tenor or to entertain the club's teenagers with raunchy jokes. James Scott Connors, 22 going on 19, was taking his own kind of time-out from training for this Saturday's televised million-dollar match with the world's No. 2 player, Australian John Newcombe...
...does he do it? "I play tennis for two reasons," says Connors. "I like to hit balls, and I like to entertain. My behavior gets people involved, and I think that's what the game needs." As the bad guy, Connors believes that "people pay to see me get beaten...