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...begin to buzz, like crickets waiting for dusk. "Where is she? How does she look? Has she lost weight?" Only when she has been onstage for five or ten minutes, do the whispers stop and the answers become clear: in her first stage role, Elizabeth Taylor looks beautiful, gorgeous, radiant. In a word, sensational. "I'm on a high," she admits. "I have a sense of accomplishment, a feeling of doing something useful in my life." Raising her shoulders in a kind of happy shiver, she adds: "And the applause is wonderful...
...York City make $60,000 to $80,000 a year, and perhaps 120 top models earn up to $150,000. But don't go away; there is also a cadre of about 60 top, top models who may earn $350,000 annually. Chief among these are such radiant blonds as Kim Alexis and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED Swimsuit Siren Christie Brinkley. It is these top-tops who may be lucky enough to sign the exclusive cosmetic contracts and break into the really big money. The ultimate stars of the contract girls, in turn, will come to be referred to with...
...whose lustrous presence and finely pitched acting skills provide the only reasons for purchasing a ticket, is not cast with total precision. Carroll had a predilection for small girls. Streep is so far from being petite that she might have intimidated that slight figure of a man. However, the radiant tightness of her features, her gestures, her bearing and her voice leads us into the vernal garden of childhood and the willing sus pension of disbelief. She turns two scenes into acting marvels. In one she mimics Humpty Dumpty about to fall off the wall but retaining full possession...
Joni (pronounced Johnny) Eareckson doesn't surfer the kind of deformity that causes people to point or stare. With her pretty girl-next-door looks, radiant smile, and pert, no-nonsense personality, she is a popular speaker on the Evangelical Protestant celebrity circuit and to nonreligious groups. As she readily admits, she is treated better than most of her fellow disabled Americans. But Joni Eareckson, 31, is totally paralyzed from the neck down...
...Woman in the Sun, 1961, standing like a middle-aged caryatid on a plinth of golden light in the bare Hopperian room, wearing nothing but a cigarette. In it, the distances between wall and wall, window and sky, or the lit edge of the curtain and the worn radiant torso, take on something of the strangeness of the space in a good De Chirico. The body is enfolded by its own distances from the world, while planted solidly in a real bedroom. By the same token, the realism of the scene is also an appeal-though a subliminal...