Word: redfords
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mind. Each issue contains about a dozen lavish photo tours of opulent homes that have been transformed by top interior decorators. Average decorating budget: $200,000. Frequent peeks into celebrity homes add to the vicarious thrills. In recent years Digest readers have visited the likes of Ali MacGraw, Robert Redford, Liza Minnelli and Barbra Streisand. Says Rense: "Digest is an elitist magazine. But I don't think there is anything wrong with being rich...
...like Redford. He's on the other side. Redford holds back. He's not a hero, and he doesn't want you to dislike the people he plays. Redford retains a glamorous remoteness and passivity that doesn't stray far from good American-Eagle values. It's stability and studiness. but DeNiro gets to American from a different angle. He works his way up the spine and into the buzzing, seething mass of semi-methodical madness in the brain. He goes as far into his characters as he can go, always probing for that pure, nuclear core of nonfissionable personality...
...Unlike Redford, DeNiro is Proteus. redford never relinquishes his healthy, Rock-Mountain looks. When you say Robert Redford you know what you will get. But with DeNiro there is a volatility that makes you think of him in many faces and with a little anxiety. In Mean Streets he was nervy, wiry, and speed-driven, in The Deer Hunter aloof and grimly self-possessed, in Raging Bull sinewy, stupid, animal-like, as well as lazy...
...While Redford dares to be good looking and a good man, deNiro plays for keeps--for greatness. He plays the megalomaniac's game, and nothing is certain. He makes you worry...
...shortage of skilled workers has gradually been building. Even the least academically inclined high school graduates now set their sights on college rather than on a technical education. Says Karl Sjogren, 60, a Finnish immigrant who owns a one-man tool-and-die shop in Redford Township, Mich.: "My son is not interested in this at all. He is an auditor for a big company...