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...right for slow dancing in elevators. Consequently, Coury is often on the aesthetic defensive, making heated claims for such slick popsicles as the Bee Gees by stating, "They're having a greater impact on music today than ten Bruce Springsteens! Rita Coolidge sings their songs and so does Frank Sinatra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Man Who Sells the Sizzle | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...friends, is discreet about most of her enemies and as demure as a schoolgirl about herself. One is never sure if her virginity was lost or simply faded slowly like the Cheshire cat. Still, the lady knows how to settle a score. On being romanced and jilted by Frank Sinatra after Bogart's death in 1957: "Actually, Frank did me a great favor-he saved me from the disaster our marriage would have been. The truth is he was probably smarter than I: he knew it couldn't work. But the truth also is that he behaved like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Bringing Up Bogie's Baby | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

Even the most knowledgeable American pop-music fan would be hard pressed to identify Dean Reed. But in the Soviet Union, the Denver-born country-and-western singer is more popular than Frank Sinatra. His frequent concert tours of Communist countries draw S.R.O. crowds; his songs, which frequently blend Marxist-inspired lyrics with twanging strains of the Nashville sound (one big hit: War Goes On), sell in the millions. Last week the 40-year-old singer gained a new notoriety in his homeland; he turned up as the focus of the Kremlin's latest effort to get back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Who Is Dean Reed? | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...debut is the most recent in a string of cosmetic admissions in the '70s by public figures. Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire, for one, issued a press release about his hair transplant and may have had an eyelift too. There has also been news of hair transplants for Frank Sinatra, Roy Clark and Strom Thurmond, a facelift for Jackie Gleason, face and breast architectural work for Cher, an eyelift, facelift and breast reduction for Phyllis Diller, and there is a growing national tendency to regard cosmetic surgery as a badge of sophistication, rather than of vanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Unveiling of a New Ford | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

Kathleen Sullivan Alioto, Democratic candidate for the Senate, is thus far famous for three things. First, she is pregnant; second, Frank Sinatra is raising money for her campaign; third, her husband is former San Francisco Mayor Joseph P. Alioto, and he is really hitting the stumps here. None of these factors is likely to win her election to the Senate this fall, and they are rapidly creating the impression that there isn't much else to Ms. Alioto besides that nice smile she carries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Primaries: A Glance at the Candidates | 9/19/1978 | See Source »

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