Word: liza
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Liza Dalby's Geisha does much to correct the misimpressions, and in the process reseals an amusing, fascinating world that preserves the past by holding banquets and entertaining modern Japanese businessmen. Dalby's book is written with a sympathy and understanding for the geisha world that brings these women to life. There are flaws in Dalby's elegantly written book, for it too often concentrates on the form of Geisha life rather than the actual substance...
...song to the deaf; she commands the audience like a lion tamer with a whip snap in her walk; and, by the forces of magnetism and sheer will, she eats co-stars for breakfast. Thus it is partly noblesse oblige and partly the instinct for survival that keeps Liza Minnelli (Angel), the bigger box-office attraction, out of Chita's way. Minnelli steps to center stage only to belt out three or four of Kander and Ebb's snazzier songs, while the rest of The Rink skates along on the momentum of uninspired professionalism. But Chita Rivera...
...Life begins at 54 for Liza Minnelli and Shirley MacLaine and Farrah Fawcett-Majors and Supermodel Cheryl Tiegs. Oh, yes, and for Bianca Jagger and Tennis Star Vitas Gerulaitis and even Bella Abzug. Inside Manhattan's hottest disco, Studio 54, the elite meet to gyrate to the beat, gape and be gaped at. Owner Steve Rubell, who light-show years away was a Wall Street broker, stations himself at the doorway (with a few bouncers) to weed the throngs begging for entrance. "We only want fun people," he explains. "The wilder the clothes, the better the chance you have...
...unscrawny mannequin currently appears on six pages of the German edition of Vogue; her physique may soon grace rag-trade magazines in Italy and Japan. Lyon will appear before the fashion crowd in person next month, she says, when she models the Liza Bruce ready-to-wear collection in London. Adds she: "I see myself as a representative of a new life, a fusion of mind and body." Press on, Lisa...
...Liza Lopez, 16, is president of the 225-member City Girls Rockin' with Menudo fan club chapter in New York. Hers is one of several dozen groups in the city and 700 in the world. "They send you rules for a fan club," Lopez says. "You must visit hospitals and churches. There must be no gossip or fighting among the girls...