Word: blonds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scatological orgy of graffiti against the cold barrier. On the Eastern side, a pall hangs over the city, reflected in the rigorously functional, regimented gray apartment blocks that line the streets. Propelled by the engine of the postwar Wirtschaftswunder, the capitalist Federal Republic of Germany is a sporty blond racing along the autobahns in a glittering Mercedes-Benz. The Communist German Democratic Republic, bumping down potholed roads in proletarian Wartburgs and Russian-built Ladas, is her homely sister, a war bride locked in a loveless marriage with a former neighbor...
Sergei, 25, a blond architect in a blue-and-red woolen hat, a blue parka and jeans: "It's sad, of course, on a human level that Chernenko died. I didn't expect him to go on forever, so it wasn't what I would call a shock. But politics? Well, we only have one party, which pursues one and the same course, so I can't see that it makes much difference who came before and who will come after. At least Gorbachev won't die after a year, I suppose...
...body, which never spared itself in sport or danger, was destined to give him one last proud gallop at the end." That fugitive entry from F. Scott Fitzgerald's notebooks characterized his fellow Princetonian Hobey Baker, a man who seemed to have been written rather than born. He was blond, handsome, wealthy, the ultimate preppy more than two generations before the word was coined. In his college days (circa 1912) he led Princeton's football and hockey teams, dazzled classmates and debutantes, then when war came impulsively joined the celebrated flyers of the Lafayette Escadrille. When a headline later reported...
...topic attracting Bird's research inevitably prompts a fascination aboard the hotel jitneys that deliver the Celtics players to airport or gym. As the Kennedy round table inexorably revolves to sex lives, Bird muses, "Who was that blond actress Kennedy supposedly dated?" This brings smiles. How could anyone know of Marilyn Monroe and not know her name? Another time, when the subject is popular music, Bird puzzles, "Who's Bruce Springsteen?" Dan Shaughnessy, the thoughtful young basketball writer for the Boston Globe, answers softly, "Larry, he's the you of rock 'n' roll." Bird laughs wearily. "Where have I been...
...also got something out of Sweet Dreams, due at theaters in the fall. After a series of roles in which "a lot was internalized," Lange enjoyed playing someone whose "personality was so external that she held nothing in." To look as well as emote the part, Lange tucked her blond locks under a series of brunet wigs, and Cline's mother pronounced Lange "superb" after watching her film a stage singing performance. Movie audiences, however, will only see Lange lip-syncing. The voice belonged to the real Cline...