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...film," she says. "It's such an intense thing, being absorbed into the world of a movie. It's like discovering you have a fatal illness, with only a short time to live. So you live and love twice as deeply. Then you slip out of it, like a snakeskin, and you're cold and naked. What worries me is that when these loves die, they hardly leave traces on me. I wonder why I don't suffer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sensual Child Comes of Age | 5/2/1983 | See Source »

...James Dean-Liz Taylor movie, Giant, when it is filmed in her small Texas town. The play also marks the Broadway bow of Film Maker Robert Altman, 55 (M*A*S*H, Nashville), who anticipates no star-director skirmishes. "She won't be wearing her snakeskin suit," says Altman. "She'll be acting. And she's come into this on the same terms as everyone else-no limousines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 11, 1982 | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

...presidential jeans were trim, the snakeskin boots glistened in the Sunday sun and the white knit tennis shirt clung flatteringly to Ronald Reagan's chest. As he chatted with a few friends and reporters on the White House's South Lawn, one newsman complimented him on his flat belly. Having a gym so handy in the White House really helped, said Reagan, adding with a proud grin, "Here, feel these triceps." The reporter gingerly tested Reagan's arm. The muscles were firm. Despite his chest wound and nearly nine months in the Oval Office, Reagan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The President Flexes His Muscles | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

...gold cinch to $200 for a Judith Leiber number with handcrafted metal buckles from Bullock's Wilshire in Los Angeles. Miami's tony Twenty-Four Collection is devoting its entire holiday catalogue to metallics, from $124 gold-sprayed straw hats to $1,800 gold-striped snakeskin jackets. A gun-metal sweatshirt from Ultimo in Chicago runs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: All That Glitters Is Sold | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

...failed his first bar exam. When he walks into the courtroom, he sports snakeskin cowboy boots, a knee-length beaver coat and a ten-gallon Stetson. His outside interests have included selling bull semen. During one trial, he kept an intriguing box on the table in front of him. The contents: the embalmed leg his plaintiff had lost in the accident at issue. He won some $300,000 in damages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Fastest Gun in the West | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

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