Word: funs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your side") and the environment-minded Mother Jones ("for the rest of us"). In trying to reach freespending 18-to 34-year-olds, the New York Times (imagine this, Adolph Ochs!) ballyhoos Us, an imitation of People, as "journalism a new way-their way; lots of pictures, lots of fun, quick and easy for this brought-up-on-TV generation." Clay Felker, whose innovative but now languishing New York magazine produced so many imitators, is trying to rehabilitate Esquire. Where once, in the words of a previous editor, Esquire sought to be "smartass," it now respectfully pursues "The American...
...this happen? Gelsey explains: "I guess it was because?forgive me, Mother?I would like to have remembered my childhood like that, but it wasn't anything like my childhood. It was such fun to go through a childhood like the one in The Nutcracker. Christmas was a big deal for us, but I never saw things this way. I never had the kind of dreams that Clara does. I was so busy working at making my dreams come true that they were never really dreams. They were aspirations...
...child," says Johnna, "and Gelsey was my mother's child." The younger daughter's obsessiveness taxed a mother's patience. First it was ice skating. Tummy sticking out and a frown on her large face, Gelsey learned to whirl around the Wollman rink in Central Park. "She had no fun doing it," recalls Nancy, the long-suffering spectator...
...dancers, the tall (6 ft. 1 in.), lanky McKenzie started out with a fluid, adagio style, which usually comes only after long experience. His languid grace reflects an easygoing personality: "If dancing becomes so serious that it can make or break my psyche, then it's no more fun." He literally stumbled into ballet. Coaxed by a third-grade classmate into a tap class, he found he could not keep his balance; his father, a Vermont meat-packing company owner, suggested that he try ballet as a remedy. Even after achieving success in showpieces like Balanchine's Tchaikovsky...
...particularly fun watching Giles deal with new American expressions or traditions," Zito says, adding, "Nothing fazes him except eating a double hamburger with your hands." Zito relates an "amusing" story about the time Havergal watched some members of the cast dribble ketchup over themselves. You had to be there...