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Last week she died as she had lived, the most private of public persons, a delicate glow in the harshly lit landscape of American celebrity. Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis radiated courage and restraint, glamour and conspicuous shyness. What she thought about her crowded life no one knows because, with the exception of interviews granted to Theodore White and William Manchester in 1963 and 1964 respectively, she never spoke about her experiences after the assassination or revealed her reactions or opinions. Tapes of these interviews exist; White's will be released next year, but Manchester's are embargoed until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jacqueline Onassis: A Profile in Courage | 5/30/1994 | See Source »

They said it was a life of glamour, but it was really a life of splendor. I want to say, Listen, kid, buck up, don't be blue -- the thing about this woman and her life is that she was a patriot, who all by herself one terrible weekend lifted and braced the heart of a nation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis: America's First Lady | 5/30/1994 | See Source »

...invoked their escape clause at Anaheim Stadium -- at last look the Big A was tilting dangerously -- and could begin negotiating a move to St. Louis, where the Gateway Arch, at least, is still upright and the ticket-buying citizens are likely to forgive an outfit that passes over a glamour quarterback so it can draft a defensive lineman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dark Days in La-La Land | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

...there are always athletes eager for this indentured servitude. In the poignant three-hour documentary called Hoop Dreams (due out in the fall), about two teenage basketball prospects from Chicago, the sport's glamour is a flicker of light at the end of a long tunnel of family troubles, daunting schoolwork, perilous street life and their knowledge that stardom is a buyer's market. But they persevere because the dream is all they have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Nice Guys Finish First | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

...most moviegoers' minds, Vietnam is Oliver Stone territory -- the metaphorical battleground on which he has played out his burly war games of the conflicted American spirit. French filmmakers have also taken bittersweet & tours of Vietnam; in movies like The Lover and Indochine, Saigon has the poignant glamour of a beautiful woman's photo in an old man's memory book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Sweet Dreams From Vietnam | 3/7/1994 | See Source »

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