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...insecurity. I always think that everything good is going to evaporate and disappear overnight. I am the quietest person at the party. I position myself at the chip dip and don't leave all night. I still have a very ordinary, simple person trapped in this rich, gorgeous, successful body." The joke is practiced and sure, but she does not want her listener to miss her point, so she spells it out. "The whole thrust of my existence is that I'm ordinary." It seems important to her to believe this. Another joking statement of the theme: "Everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Erma in Bomburbia: Erma Bombeck | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

...three-day International Monetary Conference held last week in Philadelphia had all the trappings of a gala affair. In the evenings, private bankers and government finance officials from 22 countries sipped champagne at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and sampled Viennese pastries in the gorgeous Longwood Gardens of the Pierre S. du Pont estate. But during the daytime closed-door meetings at the Bellevue Stratford Hotel, the business was serious and the mood sober. Bankers were groping once again for solutions to the Latin American debt dilemma, which was threatening to take another turn for the worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Prickly Dilemma for the Banks | 6/18/1984 | See Source »

...those gorgeous gams! At 50 she's still nifty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 4, 1984 | 6/4/1984 | See Source »

...seem tremendously inactive but yet paradoxically provoke tremendous dramatic actions. Mel Gibson's Fletcher Christian comes across as a rather weak-willed character, who leads the mutiny because he wants to return to his Tahitian princess. He is given little opportunity to do anything except stand around looking gorgeous; we are never given a chance to see what motivates his actions. Why, for instance, does his passion for the princess turn into a romance de coeur so strong that he is willing to risk his life and those of the men on board the Bounty to return to Tahiti...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Uninspired Remake | 5/8/1984 | See Source »

...gave him a look of hatred.") But because of Silver's lack of pretensions, these shortcomings rarely prove troublesome and sometimes even help. For instance, Lauren's own Bess and George--her wacky Southern Californian roommate Carol, who wears hotpants and lame sandals, and her best friend Michael, a gorgeous gay preppie from an old Boston family--are funny largely because they are overdone...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: A Harvard Nancy Drew | 4/6/1984 | See Source »

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