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English is a language in which an army can be "decimated," but not "duomated," "triomated," "quatromated," or oddest of all, "pentamated...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Back in the Saddle | 1/4/1982 | See Source »

...even when she was busy with Fisher she was seeking other trophies, according to Kelley's complete but rather mean-spirited account (Simon & Schuster; $14.95). Perhaps the oddest head on Taylor's wall is that of Columnist Max Lerner. A professor of American civilization at Brandeis University and the distinguished author of numerous heavy tomes, Lerner was 57 when they began their romance. He was clearly nattered out of his Ph.D.s by finding that he was attractive to a creature like Taylor-"She said I was her intellectual Mike Todd," he brags to Kelley-and the most amusing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Hurricane and Two Survivors | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

...achievement seem both ineffable and inevitable. Even today, at 82, Astaire is lithe and healthy as he waltzes through the occasional film role. In his latest, Ghost Story, due out next month, Astaire and three other elderly gents (Melvyn Douglas, John Houseman, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) swap spooky tales. The oddest might be the one about Fred's rise to stardom. Fifty years ago, it was difficult to spot a potential movie star in a body that photographed small, frail, bewildered. Fred and his sister Adele had danced through hit Broadway shows for a dozen years before Adele...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Can Dance a Little | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...housing market have climbed higher and higher, some builders have struggled to hold down costs by constructing homes and apartments that are smaller and smaller. Closets are shrinking, attics are disappearing, basements are becoming ground-level concrete slabs. The result for more and more families is one of the oddest new shortages of all: storage space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alternate Attic: Easing the Space Squeeze | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

...treats his wife Mo (Lisa Eichhorn) shamefully. Bone (Jeff Bridges) is pathologically amiable, a gentle gigolo who would rather be out on his sailboat or, better still, indulging a dream of rescuing his buddy's lady from her slummy, captive misery. In short, Cutter and Bone are the oddest couple this side of, La Cage aux Folles. The notion of their apprehending a rich and powerful man for a sex murder of which Bone is suspected is surely the year's most dubious movie premise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Odd Couple | 4/6/1981 | See Source »

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