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...flying round Marya Dmitrievna, now on his toes, now on his heels; until, turning his partner round to her seat, he executed the final pas, raising his soft foot backwards, bowing his perspiring head, smiling and making a wide sweep with his arm amid a thunder of applause and laughter led by Natasha. Both partners stood still, breathing heavily and wiping their faces with their cambric handkerchiefs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scenes From a Ball | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

...this is going to be our helmet," Gregg said as he previewed the new style for his amused troops last year, when the Bengals were a misleading 6-and-10, "and I don't want anyone making fun of it." The laughter stopped. Such is the old style of Gregg, the former Green Bay Packer offensive lineman, called by Vince Lombardi "the finest player I ever coached." Following one legend, it may help to have been acquainted with another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bengal, Bengal, Burning Bright | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

Crimes of the Heart. Three sisters, nurtured in Southern gothic grotesquerie, induce spasms of laughter in Beth Henley's Pulitzer-prizewinning drama. Dreamgirls. A pearl in the strand of notable U.S. musicals. There is dazzling elegance in Theoni V. Aldredge's costumes, and a young belter named Jennifer Holliday can start, stop and steal a show. (See above.) The Dresser. Paul Rogers plays a decrepit provincial Shakespearean actor-manager; Tom Courtenay, his valet. In double image, they are Lear and his Fool-and both are magnificent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Best of 1981: Theater | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

Reds. Could have been "Warren's Gate." Instead, Writer-Director-Producer-Star Beatty fashioned a biography of Radical Journalist John Reed into a love story that evokes laughter, tears, thoughtfulness, astonishment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Best of 1981: Cinema | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

...news of defeat was the daily Washington fare, Franklin Roosevelt brought a guest to the South Portico on Christmas Eve. Winston Churchill looked out over thousands of troubled people who had gathered on the lawn with a special understanding. "Let the children have their night of fun and laughter," he said. "Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their hearts; let us share to the full in their unstinted pleasure, before we turn again to the stern tasks in the year that lies before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency by Hugh Sidey: Those Evergreen Echoes | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

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