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...that might be called character vignettes if there were any humanity in them. Tully (Stacy Keach) is a drunk, forever down on his luck and looking for a job, who hasn't had a fight in a year and a half. His dismal life with a rummy mis tress (Susan Tyrell) and his struggles to get back into boxing are intercut with the exploits of a younger but no more hopeful fighter (Jeff Bridges), who mar ries because he has to and promises to end up pretty much like Tully himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Overweight | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

...Seven Aspects of Shaw," Part 1. Ac tress-Director-Producer Margaret Webster examines the many facets of G.B.S., read ing excerpts from his Man and Superman, Candida, Mrs. Warren's Profession and Pygmalion. Repeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 4, 1967 | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

...freely from Latin to folk, Hawaiian to Dixieland, but is most effective in numbers with a hint of country twang. An attractive divorcee, she has a large following among the men, to whom she plays as deftly as she plays the piano. She can be either nursemaid or sedup-tress, gauging her attack by "the different stages of drink." Says she: "If they're looking at me, I try to entertain. If they're occupied with themselves, I just sit back and sort of mess around." - Nappy Gagno, at Boston's Merry-Go-Round Lounge, has been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightclubs: The Mood Merchants | 3/24/1967 | See Source »

MADELINE R. TRESS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 31, 1965 | 12/31/1965 | See Source »

...deal more. Lockwood banishes his son for the unforgivable fault of getting kicked out of Princeton, his daughter gets entangled in an intricate sexual morass in London, he himself acquires one mistress too many (O'Hara tycoons always have several mistresses). His brother kills himself-and the mis tress. In the end there is no one left of the Lockwood concern but the principal person of this private religion. But the chief trouble with the Lockwood concern is that it has also be come the O'Hara obsession. And that may be what is responsible for the nagging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Frustrated Pygmalion | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

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