Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have a schizophrenic quality; their glib and merry lips belie broody, troubled hearts. The present production of Tartuffe at Manhattan's Circle in the Square Theater is infectiously high-spirited, but it scants the biting melancholy wisdom that animates Moliere's satiric moral vision. Fortunately, wading only knee-deep in Moliere is more bracing than total immersion in most playwrights...
...waived free agent was the exit not of a sun-kissed superstar, but of a tarnished jewel. The glory of the 1969 Super Bowl victory and his Broadway Joe image could still sell popcorn makers and aftershave lotion, but there was doubt that his near immobile legs-after five knee operations-could hold up for another year. Even his rifle arm seemed to be weakening: last season Namath fell to 26th place among N.F.L. passers in cumulative statistics...
Rafto is an experienced runner whose time has come. Plagued by serious knee problems last year, Rafto has had a few rough spots to polish in summer camp, but is nor running well. Eichner will return from a strong freshman season. A hot ticket when he's got his stuff together, he should improve as the season progresses...
...Pennsylvania Avenue. The President's son and daughter-in-law had big plans for marketing their pictures in a book, and hoped for a foreword by Jimmy. They even had a prospectus put together for publishers and included some sample snaps: Amy on Daddy's knee, Miss Lillian out fishing, Rosalynn on the tennis court, Jimmy in a hospital gown after the birth of a grandchild. Then word got round about how Annette and Jeff were aiming to follow a bit too closely in Brother Billy's enterprising footsteps. Last week the project was quietly dropped...
...effect, the layered look has simply extended downward. Legs are being gussied up-particularly to the advantage of the unbeautiful ones-with thigh-high socks and knee-high socks, cuffers (a.k.a. anklets) and the leg warmers that dancers have worn for years. One or two or all of these furbelows may be worn at the same time, and they can be used to make endless variations on a theme: a knee-high can be rolled down to become a cuffer; the leg warmer can be adjusted to look like Chaplin's baggy pants. (Beautiful Legs have learned they...