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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Davis gives the role everything he has, which is both too much and not enough. Like Liza Minnelli, who was in rapt attendance on opening night, Davis is a claque person: his fans bestow upon him an adoring worship that outstrips the sum of his actual gifts. He is a passable dancer (though he does not dance in this show), his voice is only as strong as the mic it is hooked to, and an orphan out of Annie could match his acting. Like Minnelli, Davis projects the image of an overage child parched for affection, aggressively demanding approval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Life's Clown | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

...manufacturing concern in Milan before deciding that his future lay in the U.S. With his German-born wife Iris, Countess zu Dohna-Lauck, 28, he moved to New York in 1974 and started a real estate investment concern that grossed nearly $10 million last year and may double that sum this year. Most of his business is with fellow Europeans. Laurenti's scholarly partner, Roberto Riva, 38, was born in Peru of Italian ancestry, earned his degrees in Italy, owned a prosperous oil trading company in Houston and decided to settle permanently in the U.S. Says Laurenti: "Here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Enter the Entrepreneurs | 7/24/1978 | See Source »

...acquisition of the bar on Mt. Auburn Street for an undisclosed sum of money, ends a business that serviced Cambridge barflies for over three decades. The bar, originally located on Dunster St., was founded in 1942. "Cronin had one of the oldest businesses in the square," Imhof said...

Author: By Stephen A. Labaton, | Title: Cronin's Bar Changes Hands; New Owner Plans Renovation | 7/18/1978 | See Source »

...least frequently answered. Aaron offers tentative explanations to himself and others: loyalty to the past that Shosha shared with him, a mystic identification with her simplicity, even the conviction that Shosha is the one woman in the world who would never betray him. His act remains greater than the sum of its reasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Singer's Song of the Polish Past | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

...tourist who has flown from New York City to London for $138 finds that he must pay $575 for a round-trip economy flight from England to Athens. In Germany, where the visitor might expect to rent a small Mercedes-Benz 200 for a reasonable sum, he will find that it costs $82.60 a day, plus 30? per kilometer, plus gas, which can cost $1.75 per gal. on an autobahn. Obviously, the U.S. tourist needs to plan his trip with pfennig-pinching, shilling-saving, franc-squeezing acumen. If he does so, the wary wayfarer can still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Europe '78: No Bargain Basement | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

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