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Liberace spoke reverently to his fans of motherhood, country and religion -- in earlier days his act featured a woman dressed as a nun outstretched in spiritual ecstasy as he played the Ave Maria -- but he poked constant fun at himself. His little-boy smirkiness brought out maternal feelings in women twice his age and eventually in women half his age. So did his soulful, unmacho sentiment: long before liberation, he offered the female public a man as romantic, as house proud and as appearance conscious as any of them. They envied his tightly curled hair, his industrial-size dimple, above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Synonym for Glorious Excess | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

...After Maria exhausts her dramatic repertoire--which includes mother, daughter, sister and husband to Dolores--she takes an asp in hand and reclines on a banquet table to die as Cleopatra...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON BOOKS | 2/10/1987 | See Source »

Saves--BU, Maria Dunn 29-27-15--71. H, Jennifer White 3-x-x--3; Suzy Carter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: For the Record... | 2/4/1987 | See Source »

...letter was yet another reminder to Chinese authorities that sending students to the U.S. for study can be a risky business. Although many of them are party members, their exposure to American political values, says one student, "makes them more democratic." Confirms Maria Chang, a political scientist at the University of Puget Sound: "They are the most uncynical believers in American democracy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thinking About Home | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

...Last Supper, Leonardo da Vinci's masterwork, which is located in the former refectory of Milan's Santa Maria delle Grazie convent, was said to have begun deteriorating almost as soon as it was finished in 1497. The surface cracked because Da Vinci used an experimental primer on the wall. Then came the ravages of flooding, the cutting of a doorway, clumsy restoration and Allied bombing during World War II. But the latest attacks have come from modern tourists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Supper Hours Are Ending | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

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