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...dinner was partly a cover to allow more than 100 guests to slip into the White House for a surprise party that Ford had engineered, with great delight, for his wife. It was their last evening of dancing in the marble foyer. It was merry but laced with nostalgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: IT'S JUST CITIZEN FORD NOW | 1/31/1977 | See Source »

...dingy foyer of the Utah State Prison, Gilmore's aunt, Ida Damico, and her daughter, Brenda Nicol, maintain a sort of vigil. They say, though, that if they had been on Gilmore's jury, they would have voted to convict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Much Ado About Gary | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...start filling up another. At times she lived on candy bars, tossing coins out of a window to children who would go to the store for her. Visiting The Bronx, a reporter from the New York Times talked to Clara Engelmann, 64, who had moved her bed into the foyer of her apartment and slept fully dressed so she could dash out the door the next time someone tried to break into her bedroom -which had happened three times before. "They're not human," she cried. "They're not human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CITIES: The Elderly: Prisoners of Fear | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

George Hamlin has directed the Loeb's repertory company with a nice quick wit. Fast pacing coupled with the cast's flawless timing compensates nicely for what usually seems like too long a play. Wellchoreographed movement and extensive use of a back foyer and staircases give the production a visual variety not often found in a one-room...

Author: By R.e. Liebmann, | Title: A Nice, Light Summer Comedy | 7/30/1976 | See Source »

...balcony of the theater, not much was to be seen; the actors on the big black stage were too far away, so that the audience spent its time craning for a glimpse of the TV monitors mounted along the parapets. Those who had hired opera glasses in the foyer (deposit $25, or a California state driver's license: realists, the concessionaires) trained them on the TV sets. Where else in the world, and on what other occasion, could an enthusiast spend so much money on limos, hairdresser, clothes, ticket, only to end up watching television through a magnifying lens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Day for Night Stars | 4/12/1976 | See Source »

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