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...Brooklyn Museum's entrance hall is a period room of the recently lost future, haunted by a peculiar American dream from the days when model-airplane kits were still mostly balsa. A 1929 high-wing monoplane, bravely lacquered in sky blue and wasp yellow, hangs from the ceiling, almost low enough for the grown visitor to touch its spats. Nearby sits the Chrysler Airflow -- not, alas, the classic 1934 model with the "waterfall" radiator, but still modernity on wheels, squinty windshield, fairings and all. Between them are such icons as the 1936 Sears-Roebuck Waterwitch outboard, offering its owner some...
...Buscaglia. Outside of that, I'm easy. Of course, if I stick flamingos in the front yard, defend secondhand smoke or say something coarse about the snail darter, I'll pay you. I will agree never to go bald. And naturally, I expect you to remain wrinkle free and wasp waisted until further notice from an impartial panel made up of myself, Bert Parks and my attorney. Since we own no pets, I am willing to waive the dog-poop provision. Do you think this will remove the romance from our marriage, dearest? If so, I could add a romance...
...Heat, the prostitute drunk on erotic danger in Crimes of Passion, the chic hit woman of Prizzi's Honor -- Turner has dazzlingly portrayed women with elusive identities. Was a Turner character foxy or a weasel, or tantalizing bits of both? Peggy Sue, while tamping down the actress's smoldering Wasp sexuality, challenges her to play two characters and moods at once. She must simultaneously experience and elegize the high spirits of her teens, and she accomplishes the feat with grace, wit and feeling. Turner, 32, cannot pass for a teenager, but that makes sense. The young Peggy...
Together We Stand (CBS). In a close encounter of a more familiar kind, Elliott Gould and Dee Wallace Stone play parents who decide to adopt a child and wind up with two: a 14-year-old half-Vietnamese boy and a six-year-old black girl. Added to the Wasp pair already on hand, the newcomers set the family melting pot at high boil. The sentiment gets a bit thick, but there is something appealing about the war orphan's brashness ("My dad was a big hero. Maybe you heard of him -- John Wayne") and something real about...
...tiny swan." The next year she was in Israel telling her mom, "I want to stay and help." Recalls Elizabeth: "This was at a stage when she wouldn't make her bed. But she had the Sigourney Serious Look -- and when you see it, you act." Now the Wasp princess trades in her deb gown for khaki and operates the potato-peeling machine at the Hill of Isaac Kibbutz. "I tried to improve the machine's performance, and for a $ while it did work faster. So fast that it blew up. The supervisor said I was a humiliation...