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...have on young Israeli women-or old Israeli politicians for that matter. Coaxed out of retirement to play the late Israeli leader in the Operation Prime Time TV movie, A Woman Called Golda, to be aired next May, Bergman managed to fold a Yiddish lilt into her husky Swedish whisper. Though the actress spent hours watching news and documentary footage of Golda, she only saw the grande dame of Israeli politics brighten once-in an old segment of TV's This Is Your Life. "They were all so serious, those films," says Bergman. "I wondered if Golda had ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 9, 1981 | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...fruit dully glistening with the heavy shine of late summer, some leaves almost metallic in density, others a little blurred as the wind stirs them. Into this ecstatically concrete world, a ghost intrudes: the shadow of Atget and his shrouded camera falling across a cabbage plant. Mere shades that whisper "I was here" and so wrench the image away from objectivity toward that sense of mutual dependence between viewer and view that lay at the heart of modernism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photography: Images from Old France | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...Crummies: The Americans are much devoted to grand gestures and the melodrama. (Leaning toward Nicholas with a stage whisper) And I have it on the best authority that they will pay ... almost anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Dickens of a Show: NICOLAS NICKELBY | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

...with a faint smirk to news broadcasts of his own final hours. Even when the end is not far off, there are some lighter moments. Only days before he died, Kevin Lynch asked his family to bring him some cigars. He lay there, his body emaciated, his voice a whisper, blowing smoke toward the ceiling. The mother and girlfriend of Kieran Doherty, 25, were lifting his shrunken body for a rubdown when he almost slid from the bed; the prisoner kidded them about taking 24 hours off his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Northern Ireland: Ready to Die in the Maze | 8/17/1981 | See Source »

...sold by McConnell's, in California, which somehow manages to saturate its product with 22% butterfat, currently a North American record. By Gerber's of Atlanta. By Graeter's of Cincinnati. By Bud's of San Francisco. By Vivoli's of Berkeley. By (whisper its name) Bailey's of Boston, which takes no notice of the new superpremium trend because it has been serving only the best since 1873, thank you very much, and which serves its sundaes in silver-plated bowls resting on silver-plated salvers. In New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ice Cream: They All Scream for It | 8/10/1981 | See Source »

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