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People want to know, and have a right to be curious about such things." Indeed, long before anyone heard of Huxley or even Mary Shelley's Frankenstein monster, people were fascinated and frightened by the prospects of creating life outside the womb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Test-Tube Baby | 7/31/1978 | See Source »

Still, one has to admire his chutzpah. He has hired pretty Shelley Hack (the Charlie girl of the perfume ads) and then hidden her fine face behind a huge pair of glasses. He has added Writers Jimmy Breslin and George Plimpton to the cast for curiosity value. He has even had the nerve to stage his big reconciliation scene on Christmas morning, heaping sentiment on sentiment. It may work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Big Score | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

Bangles and chains, a head scarf, a few phrases of Romany and presto, Shelley Winters is an ample gypsy queen in King of the Gypsies. Based on Peter Maas' saga about gypsy life in America today, the film describes the stormy succession to the throne of King Zharko (Sterling Hayden). During the shooting of a scene at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel, Winters decided to see how authentic she looked. Sauntering over to diners in the Palm Court, she offered to tell their fortunes and was swiftly chased out by the management. Later came revenge. Winters watered the palms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 22, 1978 | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

After the presentation, students expressed views on why they felt divestiture of the stock was necessary, citing the morally reprehensive stand of the Vorster regime, Shelley Pitterman, a member of the committee said yesterday...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Brandeis Students Urge South African Divestiture | 11/4/1977 | See Source »

...good to you. But their headlights shimmer in the rain and are kind of pretty and the sidewalks look like patent leather with all the garbage washed off for once...maybe if you weren't sated all the time with Chopin and ivy-covered brick and first editions of Shelley you might get something out of this back street, might see beyond being nervous about what or who was in those shadows. Your friend sits down on the curb and you'd envy him his ease but you know that in a few minutes he's gonna have...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Strangers in the Night | 10/19/1977 | See Source »

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