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...private moments with his American hosts, Brezhnev grew mellow and a bit misty as he talked about the revolution and the war and his hopes for his people and all people. There was an urgency about the man, now 66, an understanding that time was getting short and he wanted to leave his monument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: A Timely Friend in Need | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

...Mellow and good-humored and not entirely serious about itself, Kid Blue shows it is still possible to bring a newer, fresher, more contemporary tone to the western while still honoring what is best and strongest in the traditional form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Desperado for Hire | 5/14/1973 | See Source »

...mellow and moist-eyed, Frank Sinatra had finally made it. The Kennedys may have snubbed him because of his underworld connections. Richard Nixon may have regretted his lack of gallantry with Columnist Maxine Cheshire. But now all was forgiven. There Frank was in the White House, singing ten of his old favorites for visiting Italian Premier Giulio Andreotti. The President himself led the standing ovation after Ol' Man River and called his visiting star "the Washington Monument of entertainment." Afterward, Sinatra went back to his newly rented Washington town house and gave a party for a few friends, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 30, 1973 | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

...would have thought that no one would ask me to rewrite the characters of a play that is 37 years old." She paused before adding the obvious: "I, of course, have no intention of doing it." Once as famous for her sharp tongue as for her beauty, she is mellower now (she celebrated her 70th birthday this month), but not so mellow as to rewrite her best-known play. When The Women is revived on Broadway this week, after two weeks of tryouts, the changes will be in the cast: a blonde seductress will replace Lainie Kazan, the temperamental brunette...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Women's Woman | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

...singing, too, reflected both sides. He did some of his new, mellow songs like Mother Earth. His best (our prejudice, perhaps) was "Who Do You Love," done as gutturally as ever, with side-kick Trevor Veitch on the electric guitar...

Author: By E.j. Dionne and Michael S. Feldberg, S | Title: Rush | 4/19/1973 | See Source »

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