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...actresses are quirky and resourceful, and so are the characters they play. "The old image of a star actress," says Larry Mark, vice president of production at Paramount Pictures, "was of a beautiful woman lounging in her peignoir, popping bonbons while she painted her toenails. Now it's a taut body in shorts doing jumping jacks. Juiciness is out; angularity...
...confinement She thinks Michael is cute but has no interest in breaking up the Ken-and-Barbie relationship she sees giggling on-the balcony 50 yards from her own. Bur wait...this is Santorini, island of passion. Lina's willing to try a sub-let arrangement on Michael's taut brown body, and lo and behold, Miss Wonderbread, Cathy, finds the whole thing kinky enough to give it a whirl. They all fall in love with the concept and move in together...
...drunken sailor, he enlists in the Port Ranter Naval Aviation Office Candidate School to learn to fly jets. There he crashes into Foley, whom I ours Gosset Jr. masterfully molds into a merciless embodiment of martial discipline. There is no heart of gold beneath Foley's taut Black skin: the scorn he displays for his charges on the first day of their 13-week baste training stint changes only to bitter, unstated resentment by the day they leave for flight school as ensigns whom he must now call...
...countryside teems with military activity. For several miles, in the shade of palm groves, troops are setting up encampments. As tanks are unloaded, soldiers in the turrets pull goggles down over their eyes to keep out the clouds of dust. Like umbrellas opening, tents acquire taut shapes; in their midst, a white flag with a red crescent, the symbol of a hospital, is raised. Binoculars to his eyes, a brigadier looks out toward the horizon, where he hears bursts of artillery. His or theirs? "Ours," he replies, pointing in the direction of the enemy lines. "They are getting ready...
...Stein somehow knew before The Sporting News. In the recordbook, they stand first and second among active players in games played, at-bats, hits, singles, doubles, extra base hits, total bases and runs scored. Their teams, the Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Phillies, stand thicker than pine tar in taut pennant races as baseball resumes after last week's All-Star break. Though neither starred, Yastrzemski for the American League and Rose for the National were naturally in Montreal to confer, consult and otherwise hobnob with their fellow wizards. Since their base paths do not very often cross...