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...that could make the difference between competence and excitement. Overactress Zeidenberg works hard to appear the storybook caricature of lovestruck Phoebe, and bright eyes and rich voice provide the elements of a successful performance. Withers as Fairfax enters with the melancholy appropriate for a man facing execution, but the low-key colonel never seems to realize that his character continues to live in subsequent scenes. Freeman, in spite of an unextraordinary voice, brings off the role of Meryll with genuine likability...

Author: By Jess M. Bravin, | Title: A Little Nice Music | 4/18/1986 | See Source »

...been doing his own door knocking in the town's four precincts. Dressed in a tie and tweed sports jacket, he tells voters that he too wishes to preserve Carmel. "The residents and the business community must cooperate to solve the parking and tourist problem," he says. The low-key approach and easy smile have won over folks who knew him only from film. The race appears to be between Eastwood and Townsend, but no candidate seems ready to concede. "I'll whip his butt," vows Laub, the T-shirt salesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Go Ahead, Voters, Make My Day: Clint Eastwood | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

Even at a low-key school like New York City's Morningside Montessori, for children 22 months and up, parents at an evening meeting reflected a measure of anxiety as they traded strategies for their offspring's imminent step into the best possible elementary schools. Some had applied to four or five. Gail Zimmerman, 41, who had visited twelve schools before deciding where to apply for her four-year-old daughter, advised, "Hang out at the school around dismissal time, so you can see who picks the kids up. Is it a chauffeur? A baby sitter? The child's mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Trying to Jump-Start Toddlers | 4/7/1986 | See Source »

...accounts for its amazing popularity? Partly it is the elementary but engaging word game (many puzzles are devised personally by Creator Merv Griffin, who also wrote the show's theme music), partly the hypnotic allure of the wheel itself. It may also be a function of Host Sajak, whose low-key, faintly ironic style is a welcome break from most game-show gush. "As a game- show host, there's always the temptation to do a parody of one, to do a rapid- fire delivery and smile a little more," says Sajak, 39, who was a weatherman for KNBC...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Game Shows Hit the Jackpot | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

...elicit more protests, the House Budget Committee, led by its low-key but & effective chairman, William Gray of Philadelphia, held hearings on Reagan's proposed cuts in five cities coast to coast. "Ronald Reagan has declared war on the city of Chicago," fumed Mayor Harold Washington. The President's "dastardly" budget, exclaimed Budd Bell, head of the Florida Clearinghouse on Human Services at a hearing in Tallahassee, "will result in the dismantling of many lifesustaining programs." Ron Anderson, president of Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, denounced cuts in Medicare, Medicaid, maternal- and child-health grants and childhood immunization programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! This Will Hurt | 2/24/1986 | See Source »

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