Word: fame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know. Bailey's first initial stands for Fame, Fortune and Fiction...
...film has Fonda, now 38, in the role of a suburban housewife who fights the recession with a little bit of larceny. Off-camera, of course, the actress-activist keeps busy as a speechmaker and fund raiser for her husband, Senate Candidate Tom Hayden, 36, of Chicago Seven fame. "I have a lot of energy," says Jane of her moonlighting, "and I don't waste time...
Less than seven years ago, Arthur Mitchell was performing with New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center, the first black principal dancer in an American company. His fame grew as he partnered all of Balanchine's great ballerinas, from Maria Tallchief to Suzanne Farrell. Then in April 1968, after the shock of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, he decided that it was time to do something for black people. His first move was to approach the eminent American dance teacher Karel Shook, then ballet master of the Netherlands National Ballet...
...Stop, Greenwich Village, Paul Mazursky offers yet another slick version of an autobiographical-fifties odyssey across the Brooklyn Bridge. At the age of 22, Larry Lapinsky leaves a mother who "invented the oedipal complex," and a father forever hidden behind the pages of The Daily News, to seek love, fame and fortune as an actor in the big city. What he finds are more old cliches: unfurnished pads and wild parties, abortions and carrot juice squeezers, coffeehouses, Freudian analysts and old young people, everywhere, waiting to be discovered. Mazursky's film is less the personal journey its title suggests than...
...called for a legal curb on human breeding. He has castigated America as "the land of the dull and the home of the literal" and repeatedly predicted the "smashup" of the "last empire on earth." Like many a gadfly before him, from Twain to Mencken, Vidal has won fame and wealth by biting the land that feeds...