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...directly to my hips," Valerie would say, and hundreds of fans would write in describing their own caloric calamities. When she had a confrontation with the TV mother, Jewish mothers all over America volunteered advice. In a few weeks Rhoda Morgenstern became TV's favorite wisecracking overweight spinster, and Valerie Harper emerged as a winningly wacky comic actress. Before the season ended, she won the first of her three Emmy awards, for a show in which Mary fixed up a date for her with an old flame-who showed up with his wife. Said Rhoda: "I'd like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Victorious Loser | 9/3/1973 | See Source »

Harold and Maude. About a romance between an adolescent boy and a spinster ready to kick off. It proselytizes for the "free" life; the message is as old and faded as a hippie's blue jeans. Abbey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 7/24/1973 | See Source »

Harold and Maude. About a romance between an adolescent boy and a spinster ready to kick off. It proselytizes for the "free" life; the message is as old and faded as a hippie's blue jeans. Abbey II. 8, 10. Klute. A thriller about a call girl beseiged by a crazy breather. Starring Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland. Fonda has never been tougher, and she is tough. Watch her hands talk when she visits her psychoanalyst--it is eloquence in action. Garden Cinema...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 7/20/1973 | See Source »

Harold and Maude. About a romance between an adolescent boy and a spinster ready to kick off. It proselytizes for the "free" life; the message is as old and faded as a hippie's blue jeans. Abbey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 7/17/1973 | See Source »

...prose, too, she has mostly worn her rue with a deference to the reader's need to take his shots of cold mortality with a little sweet vermouth. Lately, however, the author has grown more flatly somber, shorter on style, wit and patience, like a lonely spinster who has become too preoccupied, too saddened by the world to go through the reassuring motions of genial small talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Ars Moriendi | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

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