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...series' seven-member repertory troupe features Rita Moreno, the Puerto Rican-born actress who won an Oscar in West Side Story, and Bill Cosby, who after five seasons gave up Hollywood TV series to pursue a doctorate in education at the University of Massachusetts. Cosby is not unfamiliar with academic slow starters-in worse days he had to do a rerun of tenth grade. The second bananas are all first-rate, notably Judy Graubart, whose roles include Julia Grownup; Skip Hinnant, the Don Adams-style sleuth, Fargo North; Lee Chamberlin, as Rosalie the fortuneteller; and Morgan Freeman, the elongated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Sesame Seedling | 10/25/1971 | See Source »

With her bright red lips, flashing fire-engine fingernails and dramatically mascaraed eyes, the woman of '71 looks like Marilyn Monroe of the '50s, Rita Hayworth of the '40s, Marlene Dietrich of the '30s or even Theda Bara of the '20s. Anybody, that is, but the so-called natural-looking woman of the '60s. The cosmetics makers and the fashion magazines have passed the word: the natural, no-makeup look is a bore. Flashy cosmetic colors are back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Put On a Colorful Face | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

...musical interests (Cajun and mariachi among them) are broad, and she can somehow get as much kick into singing a slow blues number as into a wailing rock version of Wayne Raney's We Need a Lot More of Jesus (and a Lot Less Rock and Roll). - Rita Coolidge, 26, is a Baptist preacher's daughter raised in Nashville, Tenn. She began singing as a pre-schooler in Daddy's choir, later polished her technique on four-part harmony in a Memphis jingle factory, learned country-rock as a back-up singer with Delaney & Bonnie. Such rock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: King as Queen? | 7/12/1971 | See Source »

...creature, the film implies, who loathes the apposite sex. Sandy is a superannuated swinger, complete with stash, burns and a 17-year-old hippie on his arm. Jonathan is even more pathetic. In the final semi-surrealistic scene, he lies on his back awaiting the ministrations of a prostitute (Rita Moreno). As she sinks slowly, agonizingly slowly, to her knees she recites a ritual of masculine domination: "You have ... an inner power so great that every act, no matter what, is more proof of that power." If the text varies by so much as a word, Jonathan cannot achieve orgasm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Spiritual Disease | 7/5/1971 | See Source »

...Rita Hayworth was no great innovator in 1944 with her alluring shorts. In the late '30s, Yonkers, N.Y., had an ordinance that banned these garments for street wear. A parody of the day went something like this: "She went out ashopping in short khaki pants, the kind that in Yonkers is a criminal offense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 24, 1971 | 5/24/1971 | See Source »

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