Word: texan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar (TIME, Nov. 9) has been mostly showbiz. Long lines of hopefuls crowded outside the Mark Hellinger Theater last week to read for parts in a touring concert company that goes on the road July 12. Jesus will be Shawn Phillips (left), a blond, bearded Texan with silky hair almost to his waist. Yvonne Elliman, star of the Decca recording, will play Mary Magdalene. Judas will be played by black, talented Carl Anderson, a good bet to graduate to the Broadway production next fall. Some of the country's Jesus revolutionists-and Billy Graham-have...
Whoopee it was as 76 "proettes" teed up for the Eve L.P.G.A. championship in Sutton, Mass., last week. The tour's new image makers went all out. "See Diane Patterson," blurbed the promoters, "a former flying-trapeze artist turned golfer." See Sandra Palmer, "a Texan who is only 5 ft. 1½ in. tall but can belt the ball a mile." See Donna Caponi, "a young lady who plays a mean game of golf during the day and cuts an equally mean watusi at night." And see Pam Barnett, "a North Carolinian who throws her wig instead of breaking...
...tour. "We had a mixed-foursome tournament a few years ago," she says, "and the men decided they didn't want us." Now she says that the L.P.G.A. doesn't need to romance the men golfers -the pros, that is. A tall, angular Texan who averages 235 yds. off the tee and putts like a pool shark, Kathy contends that "the amateur male golfer can learn by watching the girls swing because his game compares with ours...
...structure and process that until now have not had a constituency. "Anybody can organize a group to speak out against hunger," Gardner said. "Common Cause is trying to get the point across, clearly and emphatically, that questions of hunger won't be solved as long as a septuagenarian Texan named W. A. Poage, who is more concerned with subsidizing farmers than with feeding children, is chairman of the House Agriculture Committee. We Americans have woven a tight web of institutions that imprison us, limit our decision and scope. To imagine that enlightened conversation will change things is just wrong...
...young, 28 years old, a Southerner, East Texan, a woman, white-and I vote with the nine old men on the Supreme Court...