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McMullen himself claims to know - in fact, to have brought into the U.S. last year, under a false passport - the I.R.A. hit man who has now been as signed to kill him. He describes the putative assassin as fortyish and bland-looking, the kind of lad who would lure his victim to a bar, buy him a drink, then splinter his skull and walk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Tantalizing Tales from the I.R.A. | 9/17/1979 | See Source »

...Shack's proprietor is hefty, fortyish Dana Montana, who at 23 lost her job as a Playboy Bunny because she was considered too old and haggard. For ten years Montana ran the Shack as a desultory go-go spot for males. Then in 1976 she decided to try exotic male dancers, insisting on a "classy, sophisticated, macho" program that would appeal strongly to women but would discourage gay customers. She has succeeded: the current stage show appears to strike the right sensual chords for women of all ages but attracts few male patrons. The revue also hits the right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: And Now, Bring on the Boys | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...place is a farm in the Catskills, presided over by a formidable middle-aged woman named Anna. She is headmistress of a progressive day school, and Mary Ann and Lolly, the girls, are her students. The other adults are Mary Ann's mother Honey, a fortyish Southern belle, and her father Bill, a stuffy but decent bureaucrat who runs a Government poverty program. They are soon joined by Lolly's parents, Celia, a pretty, distracted woman in her 20s, and Dan, an easy-riding adman in his late 40s. Dan and Honey turn out to be habitual flirts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Act Like a Lady | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

MARRIED. Rex Harrison, 70, English film and stage actor; and Mercia Tinker, fortyish, Singapore-born Swiss brunette; he for the sixth time; in Pawling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 8, 1979 | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...majority of the P.O.W.s, perhaps as high as 70%, in fact, did become divorce statistics. Virginia Guttersen remembers one wife who rushed out on the tarmac to embrace her husband and found she didn't recognize him at all. A fortyish woman, the new wife of a P.O.W., confides: "There are definitely two factions here, the old and the new. You can tell the new wives: young and pretty and happy and in love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Los Angeles: Prisoners of War | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

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