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...they would be when they grew up. Despite the fact that Underdog and Bionic Woman now mold the taste of young audiences, Sabatini may be in for a revival. Ballantine Books has reprinted in paperback 100,000 copies each of so-so Sabatini (The Black Swan, Captain Blood Returns, Mistress Wilding). Three examples of super-Sabatini (The Sea Hawk, Scaramouche, Bellarion) are to follow. Quickly, one hopes. At his worst Sabatini is a hypnotic yarn spinner. At his best he is a semiserious novelist who, like Dumas père, uses melodrama as a billboard to lure the casual pleasure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rapier Envy, Anyone? | 8/9/1976 | See Source »

Gone, too, for good was the Soviets' mistress of gymnastic elegance, Turishcheva, impeccable as ever and rewarded for it with four medals: one team gold, two silver, one bronze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OLYMPICS: The Games: Up in the Air | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

Byron had visited Greece before, so he presumably knew that changes had occurred there since the time of Pericles. But his mistress in Genoa screamed too much, and bored him. Perhaps being Byron bored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Muddle at Missolonghi | 7/26/1976 | See Source »

...children, puts much of the blame for the country's sexual debility on the overrated Italian male. "The Latin lover comes out of this pretty well beaten up," he says. "He is a bluff. In addition to his wife, a husband wants to possess a steady mistress and a few casual lovers too. The male is cursory and pluralistic. He is not interested in the quality so much as the quantity of his relations and, clearly, it is the women who pay for that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: The Giovanni Smile | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

...following evening will elaborate on his now familiar vision of a government "as good, as compassionate, as full of love as the American people." The first drafts are being fashioned by Speechwriter Patrick Anderson, a former newsman and author of the recent, faintly scandalous The President's Mistress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Freedom in Picking the Veep | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

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