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There are other problems with this Fair Lady. Eliza is played by Nancy Ringham, the American understudy who was suddenly called in when Cheryl Kennedy, an English actress, was forced out by illness. Ringham has both a pretty face and an attractive voice, but she does not make a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Still Loverly | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

The plot might sound sudsy but it has a sting unknown to the soaps. Helen (Valerie French), a middle-aged lady of slippery virtue, deserts her teen-age daughter Jo (Amanda Plummer) to marry a piratical con man in a Hathaway patch (John Carroll) who is visibly her junior. Jo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Game Loser | 7/6/1981 | See Source »

Martin's pitching coach and longtime drinking buddy Art Fowler smartened up the staff-and there have been charges that he moistened them up as well. The A's remarkable pitching record, critics protest, has been aided by some slippery business. A team does not suddenly reduce its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happy Playing Billyball | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

Alexander overcame an unusual playing hazard en route to posting the team's low score for the day. A bottle of suntan lotion, attributed to the Chip Raffi collection, exploded inside his golf bag, creating a slippery situation all over his clubs and permeating the West Warwick atmosphere with an...

Author: By Constance M. Laibe, | Title: Golfers Hold Third Place at NCAAs; URI Leads Tourney After One Round | 5/8/1981 | See Source »

Time had finally become a tangible dimension for her. Before the last week, it was merely an abstract dimension measured by movements in space. But now, she could feel a grip that was dry and hard and held her fast. Afternoons were like that--minutes seemed like hours, while she...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CREATION OF A THESIS | 4/10/1981 | See Source »

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