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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When it comes to curves, Loni Anderson, the shapely, savvy receptionist of television's WKRP in Cincinnati, does not have to take a back seat to anyone. Who better then to play the title role in Jayne Mansfield: A Symbol of the '50s, a CBS-TV movie about the cinematic sex queen. Anderson, 33, at 36-24-36, is somewhat shy of Mansfield's more pronounced 40-18-36 but hardly needs Body shaping for Women, the recent how-to book by her co-star Arnold Schwarzenegger, who plays Jayne's second husband, Mickey Hargitay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 21, 1980 | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

...LIFE OF KATHERINE MANSFIELD by Antony Alpers Viking; 466 pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scraps of Genius | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

...sunny morning in 1918, a weak, feverish Katherine Mansfield arose in a shabby hotel on the French Riviera and, for the first time, coughed up blood. "I don't want to find this is real consumption," she wrote in her journal. "I shan't have my work written. That's what matters. How unbearable it would be to die -leave 'scraps,' 'bits' ... nothing real finished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scraps of Genius | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

After her death, Mansfield's husband and executor, Critic John Middleton Murry, set out to canonize her as "the most wonderful writer and most beautiful spirit of our time." As Antony Alpers shows in this sturdy, sensible book, Murry's hagiography was as much a disservice as the excessive imitation, dismissal and neglect that later overtook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scraps of Genius | 4/21/1980 | See Source »

...Mansfield said yesterday he "could be convinced" that such courses have educational value, "but I wasn't by what Brustein said...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Enter, Stage Left | 3/15/1980 | See Source »

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