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Princess Anne, 27, Charles' sister, has also piqued the public lately, although on much less serious grounds. A petulant young woman, she stunned a photographer not long ago by spitting out four-letter vulgarities precisely timed to the clicks of his motorized camera. She alienated some of her Gloucestershire neighbors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: The Man Who Will Be King | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

It was scarcely the standard Peachtree promotion, but it was a sales pitch nonetheless?not for new industry but for federal funds. As chairman of the Southern Growth Policies Board, a 13-state coalition established in 1971, Busbee has become a leader of the South's resistance to efforts by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Playing Poorer than Thou | 2/13/1978 | See Source »

The council still remains split four to four, along progressive-conservative lines with the unpredictable Alfred E. Vellucci providing the swing vote. Vellucci's vote for Danehy appears to be a petulant, isolated one, spiting the progressive coalition which elected him mayor in 1975 and supported him in the most...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge's New Mayor | 2/11/1978 | See Source »

The chorus of beasts moves as though there weren't enough elbow room to carry out Linda Rabhan's distinctive and varied choreography. Nonetheless, a tango in which Ravenal as Eve dances Richard Bangs's petulant Adam prone and a hammy vaudeville routine involving Adam and the animals are striking...

Author: By Anemona Hartocollis, | Title: Cranapples | 5/17/1977 | See Source »

Romance has not just gone crazy in the City of the One Night Stands, it's gone kaput, period. The most unsettling facet of this death-of-love motif is the pervasiveness of its reality among the film's otherwise diverse characters. The malaise afflicts the professionally fulfilled executive (Harvey...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: Grown-Up Wasteland | 4/19/1977 | See Source »

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