Word: blonds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Onstage, he cuts a splendid figure: blond and handsome, with impossibly blue eyes, an athletic carriage and an assured, commanding presence. His distinctive, honey-rich, seductive lyric baritone voice is equally adept at the histrionic demands of opera and the more intimate sentiments of lieder. He is in demand at the world's great opera houses, has made dozens of recordings and in his native Germany has had his own television show. Along with his colleague and rival Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, he has long been regarded as a leading German baritone of his generation, and possesses a more beautiful...
...fell in love at Longlea, Millionaire Charles E. Marsh's mock 18th century manor, set on 1,000 acres of Virginia hunt country. He was an awkward, ambitious, first-term Congressman named Lyndon Johnson, and she was Alice Glass, then 26, a stately and bright young beauty with blond-ochre hair that one admirer said "shimmered and gleamed like nothing you ever saw." The previously undisclosed love affair is described by Pulitzer Prizewinner Robert Caro in Volume I of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, excerpted in the November Atlantic Monthly...
...fifth generation of a prosperous family in Independence, Mo., Elizabeth Wallace Truman grew up a blue-eyed, blond-curled tomboy. She could bat a ball as far as any boy in the neighborhood and was better than any at mumblety-peg. She met her future husband when he was six and she was five and he always said he fell in love at that moment. They did not marry until 29 years later, partly because her mother opposed this boy of no "family" and sparse prospects. Engaged just before Harry left for World War I, they wed on his return...
...make it a complete Washington scandal, there was even a little sex. Or so claimed Elizabeth Ray, the famed blond secretary who could not type. During the congressional sex scandal revelations of 1976, Ray reportedly told federal investigators that her former boss, Kenneth Gray, had arranged for her to sleep with Alaska Senator Mike Gravel on a houseboat outing in August of 1972 in hopes of securing his support for some visitor-center legislation. Gray and Gravel have denied the allegations. Says Gray: "She never had a damn thing to do with the center...
Prosperous Albuquerque makes up 96% of the newly drawn district, and Hispanics account for nearly 40% of the population. With Lujan ahead by 20 points in the polls, Hartke is wooing potential defectors, nourishing their disenchantment with Reaganomics. But his blond hair, blue eyes and meager knowledge of Spanish are decided liabilities in the ethnically rich neighborhoods. Against the popular Lujan, it may take more than occasionally saying "Necesito su voto" ("I need your vote") to triumph in November...