Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Elizabeth Taylor? "She looks like two small boys fighting under a mink blanket," says Hollywood Designer Mr. Blackwell, 42, creator and promoter of the annual Worst-Dressed Woman Awards. Even so, Liz ranks only fourth on Blackwell's current list of sartorial sad sacks, behind Barbra Streisand ("Today's flower child gone to seed in a cabbage patch"), Julie Christie ("Daisy Mae lost in Piccadilly Circus") and Jayne Meadows ("Barnum and Bailey in a telephone booth"). Julie Andrews, Carol Channing, Ann Margret, Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave and Raquel Welch are the other distinguished dowdies...
...farm which showed an income of considerably less than $3,000 a year, now live five blocks from an airport where jet flights depart and arrive, had parents who also loved but with five other children had little time to "listen," and live in the same sad world as the lamenting college student...
...strong President to use. When the Swiss examined the U.S. Constitution as a possible model for their own 1848 charter, they rejected it on the grounds that the presidency is a "matrix for dictatorship." Nonetheless, even the most activist Presidents have run into brick walls. "Lincoln was a sad man," F.D.R. once said, "because he couldn't get it all at once. And nobody can." At the end of one of his poorer days, Truman growled over a bourbon and water: "They talk about the power of the President, how I can just push a button to get things done...
...Sad but true: Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave are not female reincarnations of Laurel and Hardy. At first blush it must have looked like a great idea-Lynn is a great big broth of a girl whose eye-batting optimism thinly masks a steely and ruthless ineptitude; Rita, with the wispy, downtrodden look of a disgruntled rodent, is obviously born to be picked on. Moreover, the girls did awfully well together in the comic moments of 1964's The Girl with Green Eyes...
...compliment to the mischievous skill of Iris Murdoch that her ten previous novels-notably Under the Net, The Unicorn and The Red and the Green-have kept critics guessing about the direction in which her talent might develop. The Nice and the Good may give them a sad clue, for the answer seems to be middle-age spread...