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...profile of Leonard Nimoy, who plays Mr. Spock in Star Trek; and a report on a cable series for children, Faerie Tale Theater. The listings are tersely descriptive rather than critical ("so that you can use your own good judgment," says a message to readers), though capsule movie reviews poke some mild fun, even at films carried on Time Inc.'s pay services, Home Box Office and Cinemax. Top editors pledge that coverage of company-owned program services, and their competitors, will be "evenhanded...
Charles Aznavour still looks great at 58, with his small, powerful body sheathed in black, his ready-for-anything Cagney stance, the pouty lower lip that all chansonniers are issued at birth. Ever the actor as singer, he will poke or sculpt the air to give physical shape to a lyric; at the end of a song he may waltz or lurch into the wings. Mostly he stands at center stage and sing-talks one of the more than 1,000 ballads he has written. These are songs of subterranean emotions, of dreams and fears and guilty secrets. The best...
...interest of statesmanship, the President deleted a few surefire applause lines from the final draft, including a poke at the press that began, "Breadlines may make headlines, but. . ." In order to shore up his sagging support among a wide variety of voting blocs,* he paid homage to the needs of different interest groups. For the restive New Right he asserted his fealty to the school-prayer amendment (but did not mention anti-abortion legislation); for women he pledged a reform of discriminatory federal laws and pension rules; for farmers he promised help with debt financing; for blacks he promised support...
...that sounds like a real bummer." I said, giving the red elephant a poke with my tow. It had started to rain, and he looked a bit soggy. "What's going to happen to Lenny, there--uh, are you going to change him back...
...nights ago satirized a gallery of pre-election hopefuls around the country. When it came to the governor's race in California, a photograph of candidate Tom Bradley was accompanied by the quip, "Bradley if elected, will be the nation's tallest governor." The line was a playful poke at the carefully subdued atmosphere in which California will probably make Los Angeles Mayor Bradley America's first Black governor...