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Glamour is the rage this fall, and prime time is overflowing with ornately dressed, immaculately coiffed leading ladies who glide through fabulous worlds of wealth, power, romance and high-style intrigue. Some of them, such as Fairchild and Dina Merrill in Hot Pursuit, are campy bitches modeled after Joan Collins' conniving Alexis Carrington Colby. Others, like Dynasty's Linda Evans and Dallas' Priscilla Presley, are equally fanciful angels of goodness and nobility. Still others, like this season's spate of high-living private eyes, are just girls who want to have fun. But all of them...
...most popular comedy into a dream play with music and dance. Each line of dialogue (not just "Speak low, if you speak love") sounds like a song cue from the loveliest libretto ever written. Each move seems choreographed to the playwright's verbal arias; the actors glide across Designer Ralph Koltai's gleaming Margard floor as if they were skating on a frozen ebony pond. Through the translucent bower at stage rear we can see the sky swirling madly with birds, fireflies and what looks like a red UFO as the carping lovers lead their fellows...
...been set to swim in Moscow, and most of them would not still be around had they done so. Tracy Caulkins was a team star as long ago as the world championships of 1978, when she won five golds; now it was grand to see her, at 21, glide majestically through the 400-meter individual medley to a gold, and then repeat her performance with a powerful Olympic-record victory in the 200-meter medley. Cynthia Woodhead was a threat to win six golds at Moscow; she has won twelve national titles. Like most of the veterans, she has survived...
...Reagan has genius it was displayed in this posthumous presentation of the Medal of Freedom to Scoop. If Reagan does glide through to victory, it will be because of his singular instincts about how to play President. He melds great national principles with private ambitions; he blends what is real with what is ephemeral. Emotion becomes meaning. Politics becomes sacred policy. Adversaries become allies...
...leads the pomp and ceremony at the economic summit in London. With television cameras following his every move, Ronald Reagan seems to glide from one glorious "photo opportunity" to another...