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Fleet Street's old-fashioned rotary presses rolled off reams of front pages about the lithesome lass who seemed to have captured the Prince's heart. One photograph showed Diana posing in the bright autumn sunlight, nice legs plainly silhouetted through her diaphanous skirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Sport of Charlie Watching | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

...mist-glazed 18th century Scottish village, unknown to any map, wakes from its protective sleep one day in each 100 years. Two 20th century Americans stumble on the town's inhabitants on just that fateful day. Susceptible Tommy (Martin Vidnovic) soon tangles heartstrings with a bewitching local lass, Fiona (Meg Bussert). This actress has a voice of Baccarat crystal. When she pairs with Vidnovic to sing Almost Like Being in Love, all heaven breaks loose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Highland Fling | 10/27/1980 | See Source »

...Mabel, 'tis Mabel," shouted the cast of The Pirates of Penzance as a bonneted young lass stepped demurely from stage right. But the savvy fans at Manhattan's Delacorte Theater would know those brown eyes anywhere. They belonged to Linda Ronstadt, making her operatic debut on the day she turned 34. The rock star seemed a mite shaky in the coloratura runs, but the audience melted when she warbled Gilbert and Sullivan love songs to her devoted pirate swain. So did the swain, played by fellow Rocker Rex Smith, 24. Said he: "When she walks out the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 28, 1980 | 7/28/1980 | See Source »

Most of all, they want to vacation in Florida, whose mythic allure and down-to-sand prices make it a powerful competitor of the Spanish resorts that have long attracted the working-class English vacationer. But today there are few places in the world where a lad and his lass from Lancashire can get a better vacation bargain than in what some call in jest "Blackpool in the Sun," after the blue-collar British vacation spot of less affluent times. Two weeks at a Miami Beach hotel, round-trip air fare included, can cost as little as $470. One British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Blackpool in the Sun | 7/7/1980 | See Source »

...long-stemmed can-can dancers kick, whirl and cartwheel, split, shimmy and pirouette to Offenbach's rollicking La Vie Parisienne. In a reverse striptease, a comely Victorian lass in black stockings and garter belt dresses up in corset and crinoline for a grand occasion orchestrated by Strauss. The star of the show, callipygian Linda Bardot, clad mostly in a pearly headdress, twirls around under a filigreed umbrella, mouthing in puffick Cockney Oi'm Aownly aye Bird in aye Gilded Cayge. Between and after the twice-nightly shows, the place becomes a disco where the windows vibrate past midnight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: High Kicks Above the Big Apple | 6/9/1980 | See Source »

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