Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SOMEWHERE along the line, the makers of Imagine: John Lennon must have asked themselves the following: how do you make a documentary about someone so well known that he was, in his own words, "bigger than Jesus Christ...
...film is at its best in showing the effect John's celebrity had on both him and his fans. A scene from the early years of Beatlemania shows young girls melting into quivering puddles at a Beatles concert. During the "bigger than Jesus" brouhaha that lost the Beatles so many fans in the South, a girl says with unwitting prescience, "Some teenagers are gonna believe anything they say." As John comes to realize that he can indeed use his celebrity as a soapbox, he appears more self-conscious, winking and mugging at the ubiquitous cameras...
...When we started, we saw people outside the classes a lot, but as it gets bigger, it is more difficult to maintain social ties," Tyndall says: "People come from all around this area--some from great distances. Now there are smaller groups within the group who see each other socially...
...Western civilization," says Kapor, "but the problem is real and the threat is serious." Scientific American's Dewdney has had a similar change of heart. "At first I thought these new outbreaks were much ado about nothing," he says. "But I'm now convinced that they are a bigger threat than I imagined...
...later at the Montreal Games, it was a long-limbed brooding Rumanian, Nadia Comaneci, who stole hearts by posting the first perfect 10s ever in Olympic gymnastics competition. Then in Los Angeles in 1984, American Mary Lou Retton bounced + into our living rooms with her big vault and still bigger smile, assuring her place in the pantheon of gymnastics greats and on boxes of Wheaties...