Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...characters' debates over the merits of haute cui sine and Big Macs are as predictable as their final reconciliation. Besides, it strains credibility that this couple ever split up in the first place. How could any one married to Bisset even think of car rying on with another woman? It's easier to imagine Morley making a TV pitch for the Scarsdale diet...
...century composers. His bristly textures seem attuned to the turmoil of modern life; his fascination with the melodic patterns of speech, bird calls and animal cries appeals to contemporary music's interest in sounds. Janáček's chilling opera, The Makropoulos Affair, about a glamorous woman cursed with a 300-year life span, has recently been performed in San Francisco and at the New York City Opera. The Metropolitan Opera and Santa Fe have also staged major Janáček productions...
...composer always contended that their love was platonic, hundreds of steamy letters, discreetly tucked away in the local Janáček Museum, seem to belie his claim. The affair inspired a unique musical outburst. By the time he died at age 74 (some say while pursuing a woman through a nearby woods), Janáček had written four blazingly original operas, orchestral pieces and chamber music and the immense, superbly spiky Glagolitic Mass, a pantheistic hymn...
Indeed, the new Ford look (the work of Palm Springs Surgeon M.R. Mazaheri) was something to call about. Reported TIME Correspondent Joseph Kane, covering Betty Ford's first post-surgery public appearance at a Hollywood dinner: "The woman looks absolutely spectacular." Betty, who in recent years has battled against breast cancer and drug and alcohol addiction, was obviously pleased. Said she: "I'm 60 years old and I wanted a nice new face to go with my beautiful new life...
...look much like a straight shooter, but Barbara Bach is playing a tough-minded Yugoslav partisan about to help some British soldiers blow up a bridge. The film: Force 10 from Navarone, based on a novel by Alistair MacLean. Says Bach: "I enjoyed being the only woman among all those simpatici men." So simpatica was Bach that the screenwriter built up her role. In fact, Author MacLean, on a visit to the set, showed some surprise that his movie had a female lead...