Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME, May 12) is playing to S.R.O. audiences all across the country. A singularly ardent fan of the Truman boom is Gerald Ford, who recently assured Mrs. Daniel, "Everyone who knows me knows how I feel about your father."* Such high-level boosterism has given the country a sudden fit of Trumania. In addition to the books, there are Truman T shirts, bumper stickers and even a song by the rock group Chicago: "america's calling ... harry, you'd know what...
...part, Trumania can be ascribed to nostalgia, the phenomenon that glamorizes everything in the rear-view mirror. But mostly it is the fallout from Watergate. After the chilling scandals of the Nixon regime, the little ex-haberdasher from Missouri seems fit for Mount Rushmore. Of recent Presidents, only Truman and Dwight Eisenhower (whom H.S.T. resented) were able to retire from office with their reputations largely intact. Yet Truman never wasted a second polishing his image. He actively campaigned for Adlai Stevenson as the man to succeed him as Democratic standard bearer-but grumbled that the Hamlet-like Illinois Governor...
...laughingstock at Mediterranean watering places, the new look employs mostly lightweight (11 oz. to 14 oz.) fabrics, including polyester and cotton blends. Most of the suits can be brightened up or toned down with stylish waistcoats. Customer and tailor are free to interpret the line as they see fit, choosing from a range of some 4,000 fabrics and endless color permutations...
...play is a plum for the actor who plays Ui. Al Pacino would be a hand-in-glove fit for the part. Not so. Physically, he slopes about the stage in a Neanderthal manner and adopts a metronomic, tongue-darting tic. He is good at evoking the image of a sometimes sniveling, sometimes snarling, power-hungry hood, but the role demands more. Ui must resemble a sinister Chap lin. He must possess a chilling, demonic mesmerism. Pacino displays neither...
...Life is Elsewhere the hero (Jaromil) is an overprotected, mother's only beloved boy who discovers and embraces at the same time, live, revolution, poetic strength, political intolerance and impotence. Youth, poetry, revolution and sexual immaturity fit together for Kundera...