Word: snappings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thought, 'Why not?' " Hemingway had gone from playing the trim, muscular pentathlete in Personal Best to portraying the voluptuous playmate and murder victim in the soon-to-be-released Star 80, with nude scenes in each. So a mere adjustment in her accent would seem a snap for her first stage role, in The Palace of Amateurs, which opens in two weeks in Dallas. At first, though, the Idaho-born actress may have pressed a bit too hard for a convincing Dixie lilt. She listened to tapes of deep-fried drawls and had long conversations with Southerners...
...disaffection from synthesizer and sax, pleases Summers. The fact is that the Police, like the Who, draw their dynamism directly from intramural tension. It may only be, as Copeland describes it, like "kids at the dinner table arguing over who's got more Rice Krispies." But the snap, crackle and pop of the Police are the sounds of rock 'n' roll, summer 1983 and on into the next months. And very well...
...subjects that interest Begin, according to a Cabinet minister, he is lucid and alert, but on topics that do not engage him he can be "apathetic." Begin has occasionally had such spells before, however, and he has always managed to snap out of them. Says a Western ambassador, pointing to his head: "It hasn't changed him up here. He's still got it up there...
...most of Hirohito's subjects regard him with fond bemusement, some are beginning to suggest privately that he should abdicate. But the Emperor remains steadfast. When questioned once about his long reign, His Imperial Majesty simply recited a proverb: "Not even under the heaviest snowfall will willow trees snap." -By Pico Iyer...
John Fedders, the 6-ft. 10-in. head of the enforcement division of the Securities and Exchange Commission, is a strong advocate of braces and calls belts "decadent." Fedders, who has been wearing suspenders since graduating from law school in 1966, even has a snap-on red pair for his blue jeans. Says he: "When I get to a meeting and want to attract attention, I'll just casually let my coat fall open, and instantaneously someone will comment on them...