Word: stylish
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chiang Ch'ing was, for Communist China, a particularly stylish woman; at one point in her interviews she distributed black midi-length dresses to her several female aides and demanded that they wear them at dinner that night. She had her own collection of "bourgeois" films by such foreign stars as Greta Garbo and Charlie Chaplin. All this is in marked contrast to the dreary, controlled socialist culture and drab unisexual clothes that she helped to impose on China's masses. Hardly a surprise that in the current campaign against her, Chiang Ch'ing's love...
...weak, whereas it seemed to me that my calculations on art were so right. I brooded against the whole world and against myself." But if Degas sulked and inwardly doubted himself, he presented a facade of cool intelligence, sardonic opinionation and wry humor to the world; and this stylish, witty facade lives on in these statuettes...
Male rockers continue to rule. Joni Mitchell (TIME cover, Dec. 16, 1974) is the most stylish of the women singers to appear in the past decade, but her music is too cerebral for her to compete in drawing power with the cockerel crowing of the men. Somewhat to her own surprise, it is Linda Ronstadt who has made herself one of the biggest individual rock draws in the world. Elton John, Stevie Wonder, John Denver, Paul McCartney and Peter Frampton, among others, are bigger. Then comes Linda, the chicklet who shows up onstage wearing peasant blouses, cutoff jeans, subteen knee...
Segal and Fonda are resourceful per formers. Fonda, improbably pert and stylish even while cleaning out a cash drawer, is especially winning. But both are forced to work hard to keep the laughs coming. So hard, in fact, that it al most hurts...
...Ring), hammered for eight full rounds against Jackie Smith but was unable to put him away. Smith was singled out for attention because he has a college degree and hails from Rocky Marciano's home town of Brockton, Mass. Neither distinction gave him any advantage over the stylish and strong Colbert; still, he won the crowd's ovation and the admiration of his opponent. Heavyweight Larry Holmes, the card's other big favorite, also drew a tenacious foe in Tom Prater, who stood up to Holmes' barrage of punches. Prater was on his feet...