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Many of White's visions concerned diet. She saw her followers making "a god of their bellies" and over the years issued various dietary regulations stressing vegetarianism and forbidding alcohol and tobacco. Another of her visions showed that masturbation could lead to "imbecility, dwarfed forms, crippled limbs, misshapen heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Prophet or Plagiarist? | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

Elite Uniform. In Class B are socialite matrons who want high fashion. "It all goes back to a motto we learned in Paris," muses Tinling: "There is no such thing as a fault, Madame, simply a characteristic." Class C, it seems, are "the club players, millions of them. They dress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: For Backhand and Beforehand | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

In its mood and rural setting, A Month in the Country is kin to Ashton's Enigma Variations, his last important ballet, created before he retired as the Royal's director. This time Ashton's gift for evoking another age is enhanced by a musical collage of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Summer Storm | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

Died. Busby Berkeley, 80, choreographer of kaleidoscopic, extravagant movie musicals of the 1930s and 1940s (the Gold Diggers series, 42nd Street); of heart disease; in Palm Springs, Calif. Drillmaster Berkeley's average cast of 100 chorines rode decoratively in Ferris wheels, bowed neon-lighted violins while they whirled in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 29, 1976 | 3/29/1976 | See Source »

Now, Producer Brian Clemens is reviving the series with a new avengeress: blonde Joanna Lumley, 30. Compared with her predecessors, she seems positively oldfashioned. Instead of pants or pantyhose, she prefers skirts and stockings and even packs her pistol in her garters. But Clemens attests that "when she had to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 22, 1976 | 3/22/1976 | See Source »

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