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...crusader has been at her agitating best in the past few weeks. As cameras rolled, the pixieish, 5-ft. 3-in., 110-lb. lawyer perched atop two volumes of the California Annotated Code stacked on her office chair and exulted over a state court ruling striking down a mobile-home park's adults-only policy. Next day Allred vowed to continue pressing a suit for $21 million against the city's Roman Catholic archdiocese on behalf of a woman who claims that she was sexually abused by seven priests, even in the confessional of a church, and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Color Gloria Allred All Rebel | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...everyone virtual free rein. An upcoming production of The Beauty and the Beast, for example, has been filmed by Director Roger Vadim in the surrealistic style of Jean Cocteau. Duvall encourages the actors to take chances, even allowing Carol Kane to portray a good fairy as an insecure and pixieish Valley Girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Cinderella Puts On a Show | 7/25/1983 | See Source »

Archie Bunker's niece will soon have a new television role. Danielle Brisebois, 12, who plays the pixieish Stephanie on the CBS show Archie Bunker's Place, will star in commercials touting the Tinkerbell line of powders, perfumes, lip gloss, nail polish and other beauty aids for girls ages three to 14. This is the latest marketing ploy in the $100 million-a-year world of kiddie cosmetics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Selling Make-Believe Makeup | 8/24/1981 | See Source »

BORN. To Olga Korbut, 23, pixieish Soviet gymnast who won three gold medals at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games and now works for the Byelorussian State Sports Committee, and Leonid Bortkevich, 28, lead vocalist of Pesnyary, the Soviet Union's top folk-rock group: a son, their first child; in Minsk. Name: Richard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 2, 1979 | 4/2/1979 | See Source »

MARRIED. Olga Korbut, 22, petite, pixieish Soviet gymnast who won three gold medals at the 1972 Munich Olympics; and Leonid Bortkevich, 27, a singer with a popular Byelorussian folk-pop group called "Pesnyary"; she for the first time, he for the second; in Minsk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 16, 1978 | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

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