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...year-old woman can and should be as sexually desirable as a girl." With the body of a girl and the face of a thirty-year-old, Ms. Collins has demonstrated only that she is a biological oddity (or the product of a lot of surgery and Jane Fonda classes). The great majority of women in her age range, however, do possess faces and bodies which have marked the passage of time. The media hype surrounding Ms. Collins and others like her only intensifies an unpleasant pressure on the mature woman to try desperately to reverse the natural process...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mrs. Robinson | 5/25/1984 | See Source »

...relay sponsors are as varied as America: scores of corporations, U.S. Marines, a schoolteacher in Wichita, Kans., and dozens of celebrities from Jane Fonda to O.J. Simpson. The runners will be, if anything, even more varied. Leading off the relay from the U.N. will be the grandchildren of the great Olympians Jim Thorpe and Jesse Owens. But in Ventura, Calif., Hell's Angel George Christie will carry the flame, decked out in a regulation Olympic running outfit embellished with touches like a silver skull earring and lurid tattoos. The L.A.O.O.C. cashed his $3,000 sponsorship check, unaware...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Olympic Ideal Gets Burned | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

Thriller does not have the mean, challenging immediacy or weird fervor of a rap record like White Lines (Don't Don't Do It), and it lacks most of rap's snappy, snazzy street smarts. But it is consummate contemporary rhythm and blues. Jane Fonda, one of Jackson's pals, puts it as neatly and nicely as any music critic: "Michael's got a fresh, original sound. The music is energetic, and it's sensual. You can dance to it, work out to it, make love to it, sing to it. It's hard to sit still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why He's a Thriller | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...Since Fonda's litany tidily summarizes the full range of contemporary American leisure activity, it is no wonder that Jackson is in the air everywhere. The pulse of America and much of the rest of the world moves irregularly, beating in time to the tough strut of Billie Jean, the asphalt aria of Beat It, the supremely cool chills of Thriller. Thriller has been on the Japanese charts for 65 consecutive weeks, and local teen idols are copying Michael's moves and even singing some of his songs. Thriller is also South Africa's top seller: "Jackson, you might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why He's a Thriller | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

...sentimentalized; Jackson's world of fantasy is easier to dismiss with malicious gossip than understand with sympathy. "On some level, I don't even know whether it's conscious or not, Michael knows that he has to stand off the demands of reality and protect himself," Jane Fonda points out. Jackson spent more than a week with Fonda on the set of On Golden Pond, talking far into the night about "acting, life, everything. Afrinight about "acting, life, everything. Africa. Issues. We talked and talked and talked. His intelligence is instinctual and emotional, like a child's. If any artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why He's a Thriller | 3/19/1984 | See Source »

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