Word: jeans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sweeping, two-fisted backhands down the line. Suddenly she was "Little Chrissie, Cinderella in Sneakers," enthroned on center court. She whipped the fifth seed, Franchise Durr, and Australian Lesley Hunt. She reached the semifinals, the youngest player ever to climb to the final four, before finally losing to Billie Jean King, the eventual champion. A most extraordinary athletic career had begun...
...reach the semifinals, winning 145 matches and losing just 14. She has held the world's No. 1 ranking in six of the nine years she has played as a professional. Says Martina Navratilova, one of the few foes to challenge Evert Lloyd successfully over the years: "Billie Jean King built the car, and then Chris drove it faster than it's ever been driven. She got the vehicle and propelled it to the masses...
...lives half the year in Barbados, where she owns a house, and there she is almost as famous a hostess as she is an actress. "Her house is exquisitely decorated," says Jean-Pierre Aumont, her co-star in A Talent for Murder. "She has fantastic taste. Her table is set as if it's at the White House -which is funny because you eat wearing bathing suits." She has an apartment on Fifth Avenue as well and, now that she is by herself, also indulges one of her passions: travel. Hollywood? "The whole thing is over for me there...
...latest of some 400 works on Nostradamus since his death in 1566, Jean-Charles de Fontbrune's Nostradamus?Historian and Prophet is an interpretation with a twist: De Fontbrune analyzed the use and frequency of words with the help of a computer in his translation from 16th century French. Nostradamus' predictions, originally titled Centuries, are contained in 1,050 verses, mostly quatrains. He is said to have conceived his vague but troubling visions while staring into a brass bowl filled with water; he is otherwise best known as Charles IX's doctor. Published in November 1980, De Fontbrune's book...
...locate the moment when I was first bitten, that was it," says Meryl. "The whole audience stood up when I came out. Mind you, I've never had that experience since. It must be like what Lady Diana felt on the balcony." English Teacher Jean Galbraith recalls dropping in on a rehearsal and hearing her sing Till There Was You. "I thought, that can't be the kid in the first row who sits next to the windows? I mean that's professional, that's fantastic." Brother Third, who played Winthrop, Marian's little brother, says that there was some...