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...running for 635 seats in the House of Commons. Many of the campaigners represent 100 or so fringe organizations of the right or left that have not the remotest chance of winning. Among them: the Fancy Dress Party, the Dog Lovers' Party,* the Ecology Party and Actress Vanessa Redgrave's Workers' Revolutionary Party. Among the more serious minor parties, the Scottish Nationalists figure to lose nearly all of their eleven parliamentary seats, thanks to the failure of a referendum that would have led to a separate assembly for Scotland. The Liberals, led by David Steel, could have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Iron Lady vs. Sunny Jim | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

Christie is played by Vanessa Redgrave, the American by Dustin Hoffman−a very odd couple indeed. Redgrave simply has no peer when it comes to playing women rendered both vulnerable and awkward by the intensity of emotions that cannot be fully expressed. She is lovely and touching. Hoffman's character is based on a vanished type, the journalistic dandy of the Richard Harding Davis variety. He's a man who travels with a dozen suitcases full of bespoke clothing, knows his way around menus and room clerks, has the air of a self-made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Restoration | 2/26/1979 | See Source »

...door-to-door giant that knows a lot more about cold cream than carats. Selling to such a mass-not-class company would seem to betray a rare streak of egalitarianism in Tiffany Chairman Walter Hoving, whose often stated political views would make Marie Antoinette's sound like Vanessa Redgrave's. In fact, money talked. In a lopsided swap, Avon offered $45 worth of its stock for each share of Tiffany, which had been hovering at $19 over the counter. Hoving owns 18% of the Tiffany shares, and overnight their value shot from $7.5 million to $18 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Avon Calling | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

Woody Allen and Jason Robards and Vanessa Redgrave and Diane Keaton and Annie Hall. The old Academy showed some integrity after all. All the smart money said that the Academy wouldn't like Woody because Woody doesn't like the Academy. We hear that when he won the big one he was home cooking lobsters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oscar Beats the Odds | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

...book was terrible on Vanessa Redgrave. Her politics, of course. But we know that "zionist hoodlums" run all the betting networks in this country. Now, our editorial chairman forbids us to comment further on Vanessa's political views...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oscar Beats the Odds | 4/6/1978 | See Source »

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