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...wakes paler each morning. (An example of the excruciating mental processes: The girl has two tiny cuts on her neck. Wolves howl on the moor. Bats rustle in the window curtains. "We suspect the wounds are the result of an accident with a safety pin, used when fastening her scarf," remarks the good doctor Seward, our man of science.) Soon to arrive on the scene are Jonathan Hacker, Lucy's fiance (tall, freckled, devoted) and Dr. Van Helsing, a colleague of Seward (fat, Dutch, intellectual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Necking | 10/1/1977 | See Source »

...state tour-paid $10 and up for a concert in the Providence Civic Center. Paunchy and jowly at 42, the King scarcely bumped or gyrated. But just like old times, he crooned hoary favorites such as Hound Dog and Teddy Bear, and when he periodically tossed a sweat-stained scarf to the peons below, he set off a clawing clamor. A gratifying finale of female screams greeted his ultimate compliment, the understatement of the evening: "You've been a good audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 6, 1977 | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

...guess-what-color motorcycle for the new season's first two shows of ABC'S hit series Happy Days. Instantly smitten by the shapely Pinky, the self-proclaimed "world's greatest female biker," the Fonz actually bussed her in the bike shop and carried her pink scarf close to his leather-jacketed heart. For a few tense moments marriage loomed. Were viewers turned off by this soft side of their superstud hero? No way. The Nielsen ratings showed that Happy Days captured 53% of the total television audience for each of the Pinky episodes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Pink Passion | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

Like a Lion. She pauses and sips a glass of white wine. She chain-smokes. She is a handsome woman with big brown eyes, hair closely cropped and a straw hat on top of a patterned scarf. There are two long earrings in each ear, and one nostril is pierced. Five years ago, to cast off her middle-class upbringing, she outfitted herself with Zulu names. Ntozake literally means "She who comes with her own thing," and Shange means "One who walks like a lion." She was born Paulette Williams, and "named after my father because he wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Trying to Be Nice | 7/19/1976 | See Source »

Gary Snyder, an American poet who celebrates Zen and nature, looked like a man-in-the-mountain come down last night as he descended the stairs to the Hilles Cinema stage, clad in forest green and carrying his poems in a knotted scarf...

Author: By Margaret Y. Han, | Title: Mountain Man Poet | 4/29/1976 | See Source »

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