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Between classes at Hollywood High, the outsized and unsightly girl known as "Barge" would sneak off to the girls' room and stare at herself in the mirror. She pressed her nose against the glass so she could look into her eyes without seeing the rest of her face. And she would murmur over and over again: "Some day you'll be beautiful. Some day you'll be beautiful...
PERHAPS no place do all these elements join together in such force as in a number in the first act that stopped the show dead for several minutes on opening night. All the old chorines have gotten together to do their old kickline number ("Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's that girl I see?/... That girl is me"), and, as they recreate it, we see the same number being performed in mirror image and full costume by the old girls as they were three decades earlier in the rear of the stage. The constrast between the two images...
...Historian John Hope Franklin. "One would have thought that -aside from their particular private racial views-a group of political leaders as cold and hard-boiled as they are would have been more responsive." Indeed, many blacks believe that last year's police raids against the Black Panthers mirror the Administration's real feelings. "If it can happen to them, it can happen...
...rock mystification slide over into exploitation more easily than in the groupie sub-culture. The lessons of Groupies are clear from the start. In one of the opening sequences, an ex-groupie says she "balled fifty, maybe a hundred musicians." Then one day she looked at herself in the mirror, "my boobs were hanging out of a low cut dress, and I said to myself- 'whore.' " The film is equally self-conscious. But instead of demystification, it manages only to show that rock stars act like rock stars off stage as well and that groupies would have it no other...
...brilliant direction provided by his wife Alicia Patterson, who was its editor and publisher until her death in 1963. Guggenheim carried on for a while alone, then with former L.B.J. Aide Bill Moyers as publisher, until last May, when he sold his 51% interest in Newsday to the Times Mirror Co., publisher of the Los Angeles Times...