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...also helped patch "a terrible relationship" with her mother. When she was an aspiring actress, things got tense at home in Park Ridge, Ill. Mother would ask daughter if she would like help setting her hair, and Black wondered, "Why is she doing this? Is she trying to smother me? Destroy me?" Scientology has since allayed such fears, soothed her about her recent divorce from Actor Skip Burton, and given her some new, if hardly original, insight: "He wasn't the right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Boom in Black | 6/9/1975 | See Source »

Though he often still travels with his mother (while in Los Angeles, they share a modest two-bedroom apartment) and checks with her to see when his favorite dinners of short-rib stew or chicken-fried steak will be ready, he does not let her protective mantle smother him. Connors' father never joins his wife and son on their trips. In Los Angeles, Connors can usually be found at the Beverly Hills Tennis Club, unbending with Spencer Segura, Pancho's son and Connors' longtime friend, by playing endless games of relaxed tennis and backgammon and downing gallons of Coke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jimmy Connors: The Hellion of Tennis | 4/28/1975 | See Source »

...being the true repository of hope. This seems a pretty romantic proposition, especially for a man who had dedicated himself to abolishing every article of romantic faith. But Brecht knew well, and portrayed with ruthless accuracy, the inbred conservatism of power, the stale air of the cloister that can smother the free, creative spirit. What makes Galileo impor tant, finally, is its ironic accounting of the price of compromise and even of freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Genius Outdone, Done In | 2/10/1975 | See Source »

...tenacious Crimson defense hopes to smother an explosive Minuteman attack which has snatched up first-or second-place finishes in the Yankee Conference for the past five years...

Author: By Kurt J. Holland, | Title: Cagers Clash With Minutemen Tonight | 12/5/1974 | See Source »

...enraged mob hurled the bodies of the dead guerrillas from a second-story apartment window, kicked them, spat on them, stabbed them with sticks, then doused them with kerosene and set them afire. "Kill them again! Kill them again!" some shouted. Throwing back Israeli policemen who tried to smother the flames with blankets, the crowd chanted, "Burn Arafat! Burn Arafat!" -referring to the hated leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: A Nation Sorely Besieged | 12/2/1974 | See Source »

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