Word: supers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the princess has a weak memory: even an IBM super multiprocessor system would be hard put to keep track of the surgical, spiritual, chemical and cosmetic chicanery credited with transforming her from what she calls "a lump" of a young girl into the "internationally renowned beauty" of today. Her nose has been bobbed, her eyelids lifted, her breasts treated with cell implants. Hypnosis, silicone injections, and mysterious processes she calls "diacutaneous fibrolysis" and "aromatotherapy"-all have somehow been fitted into a schedule already jampacked with appointments for facials and pedicures, yoga lessons and gym classes. In The Beautiful People...
What is left is an abundant supply of jokes together with jarring poignancies. The two interrupt each other like hot and cold running water. Some super performances are to be savored. Julie Harris has played Little Girl Lost so often that she can sleepwalk her way through the part, but she is too much of a trouper not to do it beautifully. Nancy Marchand is as flinty as the Maine coast. As a visiting fellow teacher, Rae Allen is a delightful vulgarian, and lard would not melt in her mouth. Top honors go to Estelle Parsons, caustically jovial, slapping...
...broken leg. Led by Michele Jacot, 19, the women's team has no fewer than 14 crack skiers who are capable of winning on any given day, including a 15-year-old sensation, Jocelyne Périllat, who is being heralded by the French press as the "super champion of tomorrow." The French team is so steeped in talent that nine women and seven men have shared the team's 20 victories. Groans one Austrian skier: "They're ants, those French. You crush one and they have a hundred right behind...
...ball that's thrown at him, that says something about the kid's comfort with his body, or his conflict about aggression." That conflict, Psychiatrist Lawrence Salvesen of Massachusetts General Hospital believes, often comes out in a child's fantasy that he is either "superman or super-egg (exceptionally fragile)." Mike relieves a child's anxiety, Salvesen explains, by teaching him that he can neither destroy nor be destroyed in an ordinary fight. To Psychiatrist Joae Selzer of Boston, the key is Mike himself, "one of those charismatic, enthusiastic, down-to-earth people, who does things...
Squibb Beech-Nut Inc. is test-marketing a dime pack of its famous Life Savers. To justify the increase, company officials contend that they have improved the product. They no longer will have mere flavors, but "super flavors"-23 kinds selected from 700 recipes that were tried out on volunteer suckers. Customers may have a hard time noticing it, but each Life Saver will weigh 10% more. "We've reduced the size of the hole," says James Welsh, Beech-Nut's public relations director...