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...part," says Actress Lee Grant. No wonder. The part was that of Sophie Portnoy-the smothering mother who gives motherhood a bad name-in the movie version of Philip Roth's bestselling novel Portnoy's Complaint. "During the filming, I would look at myself in the mirror and feel that I had disappeared," Miss Grant recalls, "and here would be this awful person that I couldn't shake until the movie was over." Actor Dick Benjamin, who plays Portnoy, seems to have felt the same way. "We worked beautifully together," says Lee, "but between scenes he still...
...year dressed in black tie and dinner jacket, offers the menswear look for spring in a strictly individual version: the "Our Gang" comedy style, which is considerably more funky and less tailored than the uptown interpretation. And last week the women's page of London's Daily Mirror ran a feature instructing women in a new talent they will need: the art of tying a four-in-hand knot...
...they are very lucky, they find someone like Russell Baker, writer of the New York Times's "Observer" column. At his best, Baker fills his allotted space opposite the editorial page with bizarre, often bleak fantasies about human foolishness. At his second best, he holds a funhouse mirror up to the nature of the consumer state. Baker's "growing family," for example, does not increase numerically but expands through overweight and the excess tonnage of possessions...
...Secretary-General last week said that he planned to tackle that problem first. He also hinted that there would be drastic changes in organization of the unwieldy 4,000-member headquarters staff. Speaking of the U.N.'s larger ills, he declared that they "are only a mirror of our present political schisms." As a product of those schisms, Waldheim starts his five-year term well equipped to deal realistically with them, and perhaps to become an activist, as he put it last week, "within the limits the Charter sets...
...graphic displays of violence. "It was a phony Hollywood fallacy to have people get shot and not seem to be dead at all," he declares. "I don't mind saying that I myself was sickened by my own film. But somewhere in it there is a mirror for everybody. If I'm so bloody that I drive people out of the theater, then I've failed...