Word: weightier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nothing less than an extravagant soap opera about star-crossed lovers on the British home front during World War II. The results are often entertaining, but only for audiences who are prepared to open their tear ducts and put their brains on hold. Admirers of Schlesinger's weightier efforts-Midnight Cowboy; Sunday, Bloody Sunday-should trim their sails accordingly...
...became one of the highest-paid models of the 1960s with an 84-lb. body and measurements of 32-22-32. Now weightier by a scant 7 Ibs. Twiggy, 26, arrived at London's Ritz Hotel last week to plug her new autobiography and announce that she is branching out into matrimony. Her intended: American Actor Michael Whitney, 42. "She isn't much of a cook, but she makes a fabulous egg-and-chips and spaghetti sauce," says Whitney of his fiancée, whom he met more than two years ago. Though her modeling and acting careers...
...hardworking star of Deep Throat. To help the film along, Lovelace struck a candidate's pose in front of the White House last week. The movie is billed as a satiric look at American life and the leading lady hopes that it will be a transitional step toward Weightier roles. "I'm really Miss All-America Country Girl," says Linda in a moment of introspection. "I am very honest and open. People in our society don't know how to handle that." Lest anyone's vote be missed at the box office, distributors plan to release...
...invasion of Czechoslovakia--has been most impotent of all. Last week's acts were no Christmas bombings, inflicted by policy-makers removed from the people they hurt by thousands of miles of geography and inhumanity. Unlike the Christmas bombings, they had readily comprehensible historical explanations--though these were certainly weightier to the perpetrators than to the victims...
...President Kennedy's assassination. "It wasn't the greatest week to have a comedy on," Stoppard recalls. Three years later came Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead-and fame. In view of the gentle, unassuming nature of Tom Stoppard's personality, fame is a word no weightier than a feather...