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MARRIED. Jerry Lewis, 56, pratfalling prince of klutz currently appearing in Martin Scorsese's film The King of Comedy, and recuperating from a coronary bypass; and Sandra Pitnick, 32, who met Lewis four years ago when she got a dancing part in his movie Hardly Working; both for the second time; in Key Biscayne...
...Winter Park, Fla., it took Sandra Hinson only one quarter "to confirm what I'd known since high school phys.-ed.: yours truly is a total eye-hand klutz." TIME Contributor John Skow, who wrote the story, claims "no aptitude, but considerable attraction" toward the beeping machines. He found his skill grew roughly at the rate his money vanished. Skow also tested home game systems and found what any father could have predicted: his 15-year-old daughter wiped him out. Working with Skow was Reporter-Researcher Peter Ainslie, who has been dueling with arcade machines for three years...
...questioned the label of conservatism for those who call the government "an incompetent klutz when helping Cleveland" and then demand billions of dollars for defense. Those who call themselves conservatives today differ only marginally from liberals, Will said, and therefore are "impotent in their criticism of liberalism...
...trying to topple the conventional stereotype of the career woman as a coldly efficient bitch, the film goes too far. It's My Turn tries to prove that a woman mathematician and professor at the University of Chicago can be femininely vulnerable; it ends up portraying her as a klutz...
...Turn confirms what Starting Over suggested: that Jill Clayburgh is Hollywood's most adorable klutz. Her skinny limbs jut out at odd angles, like folding yardsticks. Her face seems the work of an impish sculptor who added an Emmett Kelly nose to those handsome features. Her hair has declared war on itself. She hunches over her food as if protecting it from invaders, and swallows champagne in one gulp, as if it had an egg in it. She moves like an awkward little girl who in her mid-30s is still Daddy's favorite. She is very dear...