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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Here is the hectoring muse of the theater, certain of every wink and diphthong. For Pygmalion, a road company Liza Doolittle is counseled on Cockney sounds: "Liar is lawyer . . . Handkerchief is Enkecher . . . Brute is not broot: it is brer-ewt. The utterance is slovenly and nasal, colds in the head being almost chronic in the gutter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mailman Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters, 1911-1925 | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

SECOND VARSITY 1 RADCLIFFE (bow Laurie Doucette; 2, Lauren Crocker; 3, Mary Farrell; 4, Christina Erickson; 5, Serena Eddy; 6, Anne Gregory; 7, Liza Paschal stroke Jocelyn Mcarther; coxswain Rachel Ward) 2 Brown 3, Northeastern...

Author: By Linda A. Flaherty, | Title: Radcliffe Heavyweights Overcome Northeastern, Brown and Charles | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

...people whose ideal of beauty is a bronze complexion in February, tanning parlors are sprouting faster than dandelions in May. Though no precise figures are available, tanning salons are raking in an estimated $300 million a year. At one of the trendiest, Hollywood's Uvasun, such celebrities as Liza Minnelli, Rod Stewart, Mariel Hemingway and even Mr. Tan himself, George Hamilton, spend upwards of $30 an hour to maintain their sunbaked looks. Less exclusive salons charge between $3 and $15 for half an hour in the synthetic sunlight. UVA Tan, located in an upscale Atlanta suburb, expanded two months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Going for the Bronze | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...Maaare! as Rhoda undoubtedly would have wailed with a mixture of pain, sympathy and gentle reproach. Mary Tyler Moore, 46, who chilled the same hearts in Ordinary People that she warmed on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, has joined the roster of celebrities (Johnny Cash, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Mitchum, Liza Minnelli) who have checked into the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif., for help with an alcohol problem. Moore, a diabetic since 1968, did so on the advice of doctors, who suggested that although she is not a heavy drinker she ought to halt even social drinking, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 24, 1984 | 9/24/1984 | See Source »

HOSPITALIZED. Liza Minnelli, 38, effervescent singer-actress; for treatment of alcohol and Valium problems; at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Minnelli's newly acknowledged difficulties evoke rueful comparisons with her mother, Judy Garland, who suffered from drug and alcohol addiction for much of her life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 30, 1984 | 7/30/1984 | See Source »

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