Word: bernstein
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...callback during her first seven years in Hollywood, but Patti Davis, 28, is now just about the hottest name in town. The actress, who will be appearing on the Nov. 26 episode of TV's Vega$, has been receiving a hundred offers a day, says her manager Jay Bernstein. "She is as hot as any client I've ever had." And that from the man who handled the sizzling careers of Suzanne Somers and Farrah Fawcett. Davis, nee Reagan, assumed her mother Nancy's maiden name in 1974, she explains, "to have a better chance of having...
Graves, TIME Managing Editor Ray Cave and Chief of Correspondents Richard Duncan; they were accompanied by Peking Bureau Chief Richard Bernstein. After a stay in Peking, the party visited agriculturally rich Sichuan province, where many of the current experiments in economic liberalization were first tried, then flew over the towering Hengduan Mountains to Lhasa, Tibet (average elevation: 16,000 ft. above sea level) and finally to the semitropical trading port of Canton some 3,000 miles to the southeast...
...players in Manitoba ("Peter Plays Right Wing") or little leaguers in Williamstown ("A World Series for Johnny"). Though more serious than those efforts, True Bearing is essentially a novelized version of the kind of aspiring journalist who spent his childhood years listening to all-news radio, idolizing Woodward and Bernstein and "Scotty" Reston instead of Mays and Yastrzemski, and waiting up all night to catch the next morning's Times...
Also: Hank Aaron, Leonard Bernstein, Johnny Cash, Helen Hayes, Coretta Scott King, Cheryl Ladd, Ann Landers, Willie Nelson, Leontyne Price, Burt Reynolds, Neil Simon, Cheryl Tiegs...
...just as captivating (Jimmy Carter is an "unknown down-home matronly-voiced Sunday-schoolish soft-shelled watery-eyed sponge-backed Millenial lulu"). But all the caring is gone. Wolfe doesn't let his subjects hang themselves anymore (as he did so exquisitely in "Radical Chic," his description of Leonard Bernstein's fund-raiser for the Black Panthers); he must open the trap-door himself...