Word: autographed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speech that was interrupted four times by a heckler. The Secretary paused and commented patiently, "I think I have some of my Harvard students here," and from then on owned the appreciative audience. His charm worked equally well on six-year-old Beth Wilder. When she held up her autograph book to him, Kissinger, spoofing his own legendary ego, asked hopefully, "Am I the first?"-and effectively mimed disappointment when she said...
...believe in it, because you're not around to know that it's happened"), and his unnerving experiences as a TV talk-show guest ("I just sit there saying I'm going to faint' "). To promote his latest creation, Warhol has offered to autograph every copy of Philosophy ordered by bookstores and wholesalers before July 25. At last count he had written some 12,000 signatures and was still going strong. Good business, after all, is the best...
...that his patient broke the shinbone while riding his electric exercise bicycle or during one of his therapy sessions on the parallel bars. At any rate, Wallace now faces not only his normal wheelchair confinement, but also six weeks in a cast. No one, presumably, will be allowed to autograph...
Strangers still occasionally stop her on the street for her autograph, and she says that even Novelist-Poet Joyce Carol Gates recently told her that she would sit for an interview only because she was dying to meet the former TV star. (Gates denies that motive and says she does not even own a TV set.) "Don't get me wrong," Quinn says. "Being a celebrity is not entirely tedious. I like being called to do a piece for the Atlantic. I like being interviewed by TIME. I like making money. I have returned from television to discover...
...more adventurous with his material, because there are many things intrinsic to the novel that he does well. What he is particularly good at is capturing the character of the Hollywood hangers-on, those people who come to funerals and sit in the back row nervously tapping their autograph books with their pens, their eyes gazing mindlessly into space, nervous smiles on their faces, waiting for some big star to arrive and inject some excitement into their lives. Their relationship with the film idols is a symbiotic one, of the sort that Norman Mailer described in his biography of Marilyn...