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...special appeal applies more or less equally to Margaux Hemingway and the ten other young women chosen by TIME'S bureaus round the world as the collective subject of this week's cover story. For varying reasons-looks, talent, what Margaux would describe as the "snappin' " zest for life that she and Deborah Raffin have brought to modeling-all have arrived on the scene with their own claims to attention. Photographing "The New Beauties" was an especially welcome diversion for TIME'S Dirck Halstead. Since joining the magazine in 1972, Halstead has spent much...
...faltering first program does not add up to failure. After all, there are still 13 more ballets to go. Moreover, even if invention flags, there is still the delight of seeing the marvelous City Ballet dancers in fresh choreography. They respond to it with palpable zest...
Gerry Ford is a grass roots politician, blessed with a zest for boring speeches and stupid occasions that would make a Brooklyn borough president proud. But Ford also has a clear conception of himself, and an unequivocal conviction that the country should be run for those people, like himself, who can scramble to the top. "Ford has a gyroscope in his gut that keeps him pointed towards the accepted platitudes of his class, race and milieu." Chilton Williamson Jr. wrote in The Nation...
...Jimmy knows he is hot, but he is going to play it his way. "I need variety," he says. "After clanging my balls as Sonny, I deliberately chose the mild Billy Buddish sailor in Liberty." He played a tall, sexy version of the short, unsexy Billy Rose with zest in Funny Lady "because I wanted to do a musical." Even if Ingmar Bergman summoned, Jimmy would go only for one, "possibly two" pictures. He is not brash; he simply wishes to avoid ruts, typecasting and difficult colleagues. "Otherwise," he says, "it's three months of pain...
Joan (Ann Reinking) comes on like a female Vince Lombardi who feels she can psych Charley into a zest for winning. She sings pep talks at him like To Make the Boy a Man and I Am Going to Love (the Man You're Going to Be). But somehow he never seems to become quite the man that she is. She dominates the action, partly because playgoers cannot really forget Shaw's Saint Joan, though nothing, unfortunately, has been borrowed from G.B.S...