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CARROLL O'CONNOR, best known for his 13-year stint as Archie Bunker on All in the Family, displays remarkable control. Despite the striking similarity of his theatrical and television roles both blue collar, conservative and ideologically limited--no trace of Archie Bunker seeps through. O'Connor's only impediment is a simulated Irish brogue which, while credible, frequently muffles his speeches...
...father was assassinated in Los Angeles in 1968 while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination, Bobby emerged as one of the most exuberant and outgoing of the "cousins," as the conglomeration of Kennedy children is dubbed. His life, at least on paper, glittered: Harvard (class of '76), a stint at the London School of Economics, author of a 1978 book on Alabama Judge Frank Johnson. In 1982, in quick succession, he was married, graduated from the University of Virginia Law School, and started work as an assistant district attorney in Manhattan...
Daddy may be a political superstar, but Actress Patti Davis, 30, has lately been less concerned with Ronald Reagan's career than with carving out her own constituency. Her recent activities range from a stint in summer stock, where she starred in a Traverse City, Mich., production of Vanities, to a more glamorous gig posing for British Photographer Patrick Lichfield in nearly $1 million worth of diamond, emerald and platinum jewels. The idea for the photos came from Olga Rostropovich, the daughter of Conductor-Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, who persuaded a gaggle of international beauties to sparkle for Lichfield. Among...
Crimson reporter Antony J. Blinken interviewed Filipino opposition leader Benigno Aquano in April 1982 during his two-year stint as a fellow at Harvard's Center for International Affairs Aquino was slain August 21, moments after returning to his homeland. Following are Blinken's reflections on that interview...
...same time it is intensely serious (as farce can be), and one of the victims of its seriousness is the stereo type of the nude. Manet invariably painted women as equal beings, not as denatured objects of allure. Victorine, the model, is clearly a model doing a professional stint; the illusions of the salon body, timelessness and glamour, are no longer properties of nakedness. Other artists painted nymphs as whores; it took Manet, in the Olympia, to paint a whore as her own person, staring back at the voyeurs, restricting the offer to a transaction. Here, as in paintings...