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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maybe the governor-general's friends are jealous of him for being in Tahiti and all. He's got a pretty sweet deal, right? Nice weather, not much to do, a big white mansion, beaches, all that stuff. Who's to say there isn't even a little fooling around on the side? Anybody's got to admit there would be worse things than being governor-general...

Author: By Peter Molyneaux, | Title: Christmas in Tahiti | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

...young mind are his father (Len Birman) and his grandfather (Yossi Yadin). The former is a hustler, determined to abandon traditional Jewish ways and invent his way upward (creaseless pants, expandable cuff links−so you can roll up your sleeves without unlinking them). The latter is a sweet-spirited, loving junk dealer, who is equally determined to imbue David with the belief that an Orthodox faith can still serve successfully as a guide to existence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Walton's Ghetto | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

...goes, that went all the way down to the floor. Shortly thereafter she was a Sunday supplement cover girl possessed of "a dewy freshness that is a blessing to behold." But Shirley was also a natural actress before cameras. Before long she had earned two Academy Award nominations (for Sweet Bird of Youth and The Dark at the Top of the Stairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Taking Chances | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

...child, she spent Saturday afternoons listening to Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts. She decided to become a singer. "When I was ten, Horace Heidt held an amateur talent show in Lyons," Knight recalls. "My mother bought me a new dress from Sears for the show." Shirley sang In My Sweet Little Alice Blue Gown, but her younger sister Gloria won the contest with a rendition of On a Slow Boat to China. Says Shirley: "I cried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Taking Chances | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

...promising territory of the unconscious mind, but, destined to play the Wandering Jew, he was denied his share of milk and honey. Instead, there was the bitter pessimism of his Civilization and Its Discontents. Jung, the son of a Swiss Protestant clergyman, was born with a spiritual sweet tooth. He had a craving to heal the soul's wounds, to make a oneness of good and evil, darkness and light, masculinity and femininity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Feeling Jung | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

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