Word: fonda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that Fonda consciously tries recreation. All the long parade of roles, he insists, are inescapable coincidences of physique and casting. "I've just got the Fonda bones," he says, "tall and skinny." Still, some of his most memorable characters were created when those bones played against type-the magnificently klutzy dope in The Lady Eve, the martinet in Fort Apache, the scruffy bandit leader in Once Upon the Time in the West. But, as he admits, the image that has sustained his career is of the man with strained conscience, like the reluctant hero of The Ox-Bow Incident...
...films and 21 plays later, Henry Fonda is still working...
...been acting for 53 years. With a half-century's experience behind him it should seem natural for Henry Fonda to play an old man. But at 73 the old pro has to work at acting his age. He resolutely puts on a stoop and shuffle as he portrays an aged Supreme Court Justice in his 21st play, First Monday in October, which opens on Broadway this week. Yet the man's youthfulness is what lingers in the mind. In his comic turns, Fonda remains as lean and lithe as when he came to national attention...
...expect Harvard to play the same quick-hitting, gung-ho type defense that bottled up UMass last week. Colgate tends to camouflage its running plays with a rollout pass option attack directed by quarterback Alex Mancini, who is from Fonda, N.Y. "We need discipline on defense," Restic says, "we have to read and then not commit quickly and then find the football...
...most of them in color: of family reunions, the rugged beauty of Antarctica, Frisbee-fetching dogs, the filming of The Wiz, Jackie Onassis in the Manhattan publishing-house office she once occupied, the Shah of Iran in his fortified Caspian Sea retreat, Brooke Shields in a skimpy leotard, Henry Fonda in a Boy Scout uniform, Pope John Paul I in the Vatican, and hot-air balloons over Iowa. Conspicuously absent are the kind of late-breaking news photos that once filled the opening pages of LIFE. The new monthly will go to press two weeks before it is distributed...