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Great beauties of the 1930s must have dreamed of looking like Frances Farmer. Right arms all over Hollywood would be deposited in the gene bank if it returned eyes as crystal blue as hers, features and figures as smart and sensuous. Add a dusky voice and no little acting potential...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Morning Comes for Frances | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

One cannot fail to be impressed by Ozick's latest collection. But it is an impression that is made by high intelligence and willful invention, and not by a captivating imagination. Too often she seems to be hectoring the reader to decipher a private cabala. Too often the magic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cabalarama | 2/15/1982 | See Source »

For Americans, one of the more galling aspects of the current crisis in the Western alliance is that the Kremlin has sometimes seemed to be succeeding in persuading many Europeans who ought to know better that the Soviet Union is waging a genuine "peace offensive," while the U.S. has recklessly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Dilemma of Nuclar Doctrine | 11/30/1981 | See Source »

The ghost haunts Marianna in a rather benign way; he loves her, even haunts her with a purer, more romantic love than the one offered by her living (and drippy) beau who totes a camera and nasally announces his affection. Indeed, Marianna's sister, played by Nini Pitts, seems more...

Author: By Leigh A. Jackson, | Title: Being and Nothingness | 11/4/1981 | See Source »

Royalty should play royalty, even in a pageant as pedestrian as this. Writer-Director Steven Gethers sketches a triptych of scenes from the life of young Jacqueline ("Not Jackie," as she firmly cautions). At first she is a solemn young equestrian, a pawn in her parents' grim power struggle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: TV 1, Jackie 0 | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

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