Word: sweetnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...role made Elizabeth Taylor a star at 12. Now Tatum O'Neal is the one with the Velvet touch. The sequel to National Velvet, ecumenically titled International Velvet, premiered at Washington, D.C.'s Kennedy Center last week. Tatum, sweet 14 and dressed to kill in a silk suit and spike-heeled sandals, was fetchingly on hand. "I didn't even want to become an actress," she confessed. "It just sort of happened...
...school--thanks to Rizzo (Stockard Channing '64), that is, who presents Danny with the good news while he's hanging out at Rydell's homecoming parade with his greaser friends, and Sandy is cheerleading away. Unfortunately, because he is busy being a greaser Danny can't act like the sweet kid Sandy met at the beach, and the romance seems to be headed for the proverbial rocks...
...FACT, DANNY has a hard time coping with his two images throughout the movie and the whole school year. He wants to maintain his tough-guy image for his buddies and his sweet side for Sandy. The best scene of the movie (when you might be able to believe Travolta can act) comes as Danny tries to apologize to Sandy for the idiotic way in which he has been behaving towards her. They are in the local malt shop, of course, where all the kids hang out. Sandy has temporarily left her football-player date, who has all his brains...
...little humility is supposed to be good for everyone, but it is sort of pathetic to watch Travolta try and convert his image for Olivia Newton-John, and it is totally predictable that whatever he does, he will win back sweet little Sandy. Only Sandy decides to go part of the way around to Danny's side before the marriage is complete. Unfortunately, the sight of Olivia Newton-John poured into a tight black outfit with her hair frizzed out and a cigarette rather tenuously balanced off her lower lip is too much to take...
...gulf between Carter and the union leaders has been especially wide and deep since the President met with AFL-CIO Chief George Meany several weeks ago and tried-in vain-to sweet-talk him into supporting a general wage hold-down. As a union official who attended that White House session told TIME Correspondent Richard Hornik: "Carter came in with his little sermonette, and when we did not accept everything he said, he stopped listening to us. He should realize that meetings like these are not Sunday school...