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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With many of their betters competing at the National Sports Festival in Colorado Springs, the U.S. track and field team felt like cannon fodder. Yet the 35-member team brought back America's seven gold medals, including all three in the sprint relays. Gloated Benn Fields, silver-medalist in the high jump: "I'm tired of hearing what dogs...
Like Los Angeles, the Times tends to sprawl: 350 columns of news a day vs. 160 for the New York Times, and stories that "jump" from page to page to page before concluding. "You don't read the Los Angeles Times," jokes a subscriber. "You weigh it." Yet the Times has become known as a writers' paper, running well-researched stories averaging 2,000 words daily. "No one else is doing that kind of newspaper journalism," boasts Chandler. "It's analogous to a daily newsmagazine...
...more impact." Chandler's growing presence in the Greater New York area newspaper market (small dailies in suburban Stamford and Greenwich, as well as Newsday and, now, the Courant) is his way of breaking into the New York-Washington news axis. Chandler says it is merely good business. Yet during the past year he has taken out full-page ads in the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal to reprint some notable Los Angeles Times stories and demonstrate his newspaper's quality. "I'm trying to be a salesman for the West Coast," says...
...Yet two of the most memorable portrayals in recent films were of twelve-year-old prostitutes, and they were played by girls who really were twelve?Brooke Shields in Louis Malle's misty legend of 1917 New Orleans, Pretty Baby, and Jodie Foster in Martin Scorsese's contemporary shocker, Taxi Driver. Each movie caused a mild outcry, but the general reaction was nervous acceptance. The phenomenon they dealt with was real enough; as Malle took to pointing out, you can hire a twelve-year-old whore any night on Manhattan's Eighth Avenue...
Truffaut may be underestimating the coolness of the newest wave of young actresses. Brooke Shields smiles sweetly when told of his theory. "I don't think I've ever gotten nervous, and I have done six films," says she. (Four have not yet been released; the most recent to appear is Just You and Me, Kid, with George Burns...