Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sisyphus isn't around anymore, but there's another guy pushing rocks up a hill. His name is Ed Ajootian and the symbol of his frustration is a 35-pound metal weight...
...more than loosely-based fictional treatments. Diana Ross was wonderful to watch and hear in Lady Sings the Blues, but the character bore only a slight resemblance to Billie Holliday. And the makers of Night and Day indulged in a luxurious piece of miscasting when they selected strapping sex symbol Cary Grant to star as a wimpish, homosexual composer named Cole Porter. It's encouraging, then, to find that in Bound For Glory, based on Woody Guthrie's autobiography of the same name, screenwriter Robert Getchell and director Hal Ashby have tried to satisfy the often conflicting demands of entertainment...
...allies wound up with fewer than ten nominations-one of which, to be sure, went to Sanjay. He will be running for a seat adjoining his mother's in Uttar Pradesh -a fact that strikes many Indians as ironically in keeping with the party's electoral symbol, a cow and a calf. In this case, mother and son are yoked together in what seems, more and more, to be the political campaign of their lives...
...What does an ex-sex symbol do?" Raquel Welch, 36, once asked her friend Henry Kissinger. But Raquel is hardly over the hill yet. After a three-continent swing with a song-and-dance routine, she took a new act to Lake Tahoe, Nev., where she played to enthusiastic audiences. At Easter, her latest film, The Prince and the Pauper, with Rex Harrison, Oliver Reed and George C. Scott, is scheduled for release. Says Raquel: "There are a number of ladies who do it all: music, movies, shows-and, well, I'm just one of those...
...preceded by Misty Malarky Ying Yang, Amy's Siamese cat, which stealthily descended the broad marble stairs, took one look at the assembled guests and swiftly retreated to safety. Misty Malarky thereby joined the Carter cardigan, the walk down Pennsylvania Avenue and the great limousine purge as a symbol of a new kind of presidency...