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...certainly more overtly sentimental -than his other films. In his new movie Pryor plays a sometime con, forced by his parole officer to drive a bus from Philadelphia to the State of Washington if he wishes to avoid a return to jail. The passengers are the lawman's fiancée (Cicely Tyson) and a group of variously troubled, and variously adorable, children, whose orphanage has been closed and who seek a home on a farm owned by Tyson's aunt and uncle. From the moment the antique vehicle sputters out onto the turnpike, one knows what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cooling Out | 6/1/1981 | See Source »

...Lady Diana was saying, 'Here I am beside my fiancé, able to hold my head high,' " noted a friend. Holding her head high was admirable, holding the dress up perhaps even more so. Something else was going on here, though. There was a kind of gleeful collaboration by the Prince's charmer in the making of her own image. This business had been left up to the news media too long, and they had got it wrong besides. Lady Diana took control of the process of popular myth in a way that would have made some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Queen for a New Day | 4/20/1981 | See Source »

Spiking the stale beer of Britons' discontent-deepening recession, wallet-walloping new taxes-came a tulip glass of bubbly named Di. When blond, blue-eyed, 19-year-old Lady Diana Spencer made her first formal appearance last week as the fiancée of the Prince of Wales, she left the island gasping. Attending a benefit recital at the Goldsmiths' Hall -close to St. Paul's Cathedral, where the royal couple will be married July 29-the Queen-to-be stepped out in a strapless, black silk-taffeta evening gown that radiated a wolf-whistle glamour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Shy Di Makes a Daring Debut | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

...wanted to give Diana a chance to think about it-to think if it was going to be too awful. If she didn't like the idea, she could say she didn't. If she did, she could say that. But in fact she said . . ." His fiancée interrupted: "Yes, quite promptly. I never had any doubts about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prince Charles Picks a Bride | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

...David-vs.-Goliath struggle against the powers that be. Thanks to a top barrister (Remak Ramsay) whose icy hauteur masks a passion for justice, the boy's name is cleared, but the economic and emotional costs are high, especially for Winslow's daughter Catherine, who loses her fiancé. The strikingly attractive Giulia Pagano makes her spunky, perceptive and vulnerable. She is an actress whom you watch from the beginning and are bewitched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Quartet | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

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