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...ambulance that was the tipoff. Few Czechoslovaks paid much heed last week when they glimpsed a sleek, Soviet-made ZIL 114 limousine speeding through the streets of Prague with dark green curtains drawn over the rear and side windows-especially not with a Communist Party congress under way. Senior party officials often travel in such cars with drawn curtains. But the limo was followed closely by an obviously well-equipped Mercedes-Benz ambulance. That was a dead giveaway that the VIP passenger was none other than ailing, 74-year-old Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev, whose battle with the infirmities...
...workout list for the first day puts you at 7 a.m. so you set your alarm for six-fifteen. You wake up in an empty room, lit--a rare and not unwelcome sight--with the reddish-yellow of dawn. You stretch--your muscles are taut and sleek, perhaps the best shape you've been in ever--and put on your sweats. The morning air is cold, and you manage a jog down an empty Boylston Street. The boathouse looks strange lit from the east, but crews are already tying in as you cross Anderson bridge. A bright sunny...
...world outside, her policies and her government were being buffeted by bleak statistics and sour skepticism. But in her quietly elegant office at No. 10 Downing Street, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was a study in controlled serenity nearing the end of another demanding day. Wearing a sleek black and gold-lamé dinner gown she had chosen for an earlier portrait sitting, she talked animatedly with London Bureau Chief Bonnie Angelo and TIME'S Frank Melville. On economic issues she was the patient teacher, with some pointers for the new occupant of the White House. On world affairs...
...always hope of redemption. One wonders, though, about Charles Grodin. Here, as in Heaven Can Wait and It's My Turn, this marvelous comic actor filches attention from the stars with his maddeningly reasonable response to every crisis. But how long can he play second banana, on whose sleek skin the other actors do pratfalls? Perhaps his next film will give him the break, and the shining costar, he needs: Muppet Movie II, with Miss Piggy. Otherwise, Grodin may grow arm-weary trying to get comic capital out of unproductive S.L.O.T. machines...
...portrays Joan Robinson Hill, the Houston socialite for whose mysterious death in 1969 her physician husband was tried but not convicted. The role forced Fawcett to make a few changes: learning to ride English-style instead of Western and, more important, combing her famous windswept hair style into a sleek pony tail. "The crew saw that I am a much better actress than people have realized," she deadpans. "Sometimes I wonder if it could have been my hair that has hurt my career...