Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passed up one of the dreams of every American male," says Contributor John Skow, who wrote this week's cover story on top Fashion Model Cheryl Tiegs. While Skow was interviewing Tiegs over dinner, her husband Stan Dragoti suggested that they all go over to Manhattan's Studio 54 discotheque. "Cheryl insisted that she was going to dance with me," recalls Skow. "But I had just got over the flu and was exhausted. I excused myself and went back to my hotel...
...machine and a heater." Three days later, Tiegs posed for six hours -this time for TIME'S cover. Hiro, one of America's top fashion photographers, assembled what he calls "a professional task force" in preparation. Says Hiro: "For this cover, I treated Cheryl not as a model but as a personality...
Washington Correspondent Johanna McGeary accompanied Tiegs from New York to California, spending eight days with her. McGeary too was exposed to Tiegs' grueling life style. Once, while Tiegs and McGeary were in the model's silver Mercedes, an L.A. policeman pulled them over. Says Mc Geary: "The cop was startled when Photographer Walter Iooss, in a car right behind, leaped out and started snapping his Nikon. The poor cop was just doing his duty ticketing the lady with the expired license plates. And TIME happened to be there. Cheryl still got a ticket...
There are indeed 151 private citizens who hold what the State Department calls "courtesy" diplomatic passports, although by law they are available only to former Presidents, Vice Presidents, Chief Justices, Cabinet members and career ambassadors. Yet Lance's passport is not the courtesy model but the one he got when he was running Carter's budget office. Passport Office staffers say Carter wanted Lance to keep his special passport because "he may be sending Lance on a diplomatic mission." That argument was not convincing to Frances Knight, the former chief of the Passport Office. "If I had been there...
...function. It becomes a parable: those few athletes who are gifted with a certain magic become proof of the splendors that the body can achieve-the feats of grace, strength, speed, skill, stamina. But the athlete's half-life is so short; his decline and failure become a model of the mortality in everyone...