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...troop of renegade soldiers out of Stalag 17 (for which he won his Oscar as Best Actor) or across The Bridge on the River Kwai. He was equally at home on the range, leading The Wild Bunch to one last dustup with destiny. Moving and speaking with the languid grace of inherited wealth (his father ran a chemical business), he wooed Audrey Hepburn into maturity in Sabrina and shepherded Gloria Swanson through the gaudy dementia of Sunset Boulevard. His easy sexual authority dared women to try to impress him. One who did, Kim Novak, made film history with Holden: their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 30, 1981 | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

...public anxiety ordinarily settles on such problems as whether the inner side of one's forearm is as tan as the outer. Still, some of the is sues suggested by Reagan's holiday are real, especially as they involve policy matters. This has hardly been a languid summer season so far, what with the air-traffic controllers' strike and the resurrection of the neutron bomb. The problems attending these matters have no Rancho del Cielo to escape to; and one must wonder if the nation can really be steered from the saddle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ahhhhhh Wilderness! | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

Save for one or two which don't work, however, the performances are extraordinary. Bridges plays the languid stud with perfection. His Golden Boy is the perfect quirkly foil for Cutter's sometimes maudlin, been-to-hell-and-back humor and disrespect. Cutter uses his maiming to control people at times, but he knows he's doing it, and it becomes, like Bones' good looks, just another method of dealing. And they know this. They've read the same psych books we have. To see Cutter coquettishly discussing "duty" to get out of a drunk driving...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: Real Realism | 7/28/1981 | See Source »

Bossy's skating style is deceptively languid, not galvanic in the manner of, say, Montreal's Guy Lafleur. He circles, seemingly remote, while his linemates, Center Bryan Trottier and Left Wing Clark Gillies, rush the puck up-ice or dig it loose from the corners. When the time comes for a pass, Bossy is often open, waiting for the puck. Once he has it, no one gets off a shot faster. Says Philadelphia Flyers Goaltender Phil Myre: "You're always looking for Bossy, wondering where he is. Sometimes you never see him until after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bullets from the Boss, Mike Bossy | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

Despite her protestations, every line reflects an unquenchable zest for living. As a young woman, she is fascinated with a nest of garter snakes, looking "like so many silk shoelaces." In middle age she embraces a languid October day, which has a "warmth so imperious and so gentle that it seems a form of grace." About the same time she meets the man who is to become her third husband. "The sea and the sand have become my native elements," she exclaims. "So is love. Am I not an abominable creature? (I need you to assure me otherwise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Field Flowers | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

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