Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nationwide, not all the statistics were as dark as in past years. For the first time since 1962, murders were actually down (by 1%). In addition, the rise in the overall crime rate moderated to 10% during 1975, a sharp improvement over 1974's 18%. Robbery shot up 15% in 1974; last year it rose only...
...part did not require a character change," says Actress Jean Peters, 49, describing her first movie assignment since A Man Called Peter (1955). "It was a sympathetic character, a little sharp-tongued, and that was easy to bring off." Jean's new role in The Moneychangers, a 6½-hour TV-movie serial, might have been easy for other reasons as well. Now cast as the wife of an overly ambitious businessman, Peters played real-life wife for 14 years to Industrialist Howard Hughes, no second banana when it came to ambition. "It's a cameo role," concedes...
Dole had to use all of his political acumen-and his sharp elbows -during the 1974 Senate campaign against Dr. William R. Roy, a popular Democratic Congressman. In the early stages of the campaign, Roy succeeded in identifying Dole with Watergate and Nixon. Trailing 10 to 12 points in the polls, Dole began to fight. He sent his mother and daughter touring the wide-open spaces of western Kansas in a van, and the family team helped to offset any damage caused by his divorce. To fight the Watergate tag, Dole imported Connecticut's G.O.P. Senator Lowell Weicker...
...grim prospect is that throughout the campaign, this sort of thing will be doled out regularly. So will some pretty sharp political barbs. Vice-Presidential Candidate Dole, after all, is the same man who said in 1969 that he went to visit Disneyland-and found Mickey Mouse wearing a Spiro Agnew watch. In the weeks ahead, he is likely to save such putdowns for Democrats. With Dole matched against Walter Mondale -a penetrating wit himself-the 1976 presidential campaign should be anything but dull...
...writes Actress Liv Ullmann, 37, describing life with Swedish Film Maker Ingmar Bergman. Liv's recollections of her former lover, current director (Face to Face) and the father of her daughter Linn, 9, are published this week in her autobiography titled The Change. If Ullmann takes a sharp focus on Bergman, she is equally exacting about some other famous men she has met. Among them: Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and former President Richard Nixon, all of whom sat down to dinner with the actress one night. Reports Liv: "Gromyko is pale, but blushes every...