Word: camelots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sounded like a match made in show business heaven. John Travolta: instant superstar when he strode down a Brooklyn sidewalk, the white-suited knight in a grungy Camelot, as Tony Manero in Saturday Night Fever; consolidation of stardom in Grease and Urban Cowboy; a sensitive actor with a stud's lean physique. Sylvester Stallone: instant superstar when he laced up his gloves and socked it to the champ for the full 15 in Rocky; consolidation of stardom in Rockys II and III, which he directed as well as wrote, mixing sentimental bravura with slam-bang action sequences...
...Dime?). Nations have them. But The Star-Spangled Banner has never quite become "our song" in the way that the Marseillaise utterly and unquestionably belongs to the French. Politicians have their "our songs." John Kennedy may have thought of his Administration in terms of the words and music of Camelot. But it is said that once, during a reception at the White House, he heard Hail to the Chief and muttered to Jackie, "They're playing our song...
Merlin is a name to conjure with. He last appeared on Broadway in Camelot as the house magician, turning a common urchin into King Arthur. But playing the palace was nothing compared with his latest assignment. In a new show that bears his name, Merlin has been called on to change a dog into...
...early years of their marriage, they were the new young couple of Camelot-he a restless freshman Senator with a brother in the White House, and she a Washington wife with retiring but winning ways. Last week, nearly five years after Joan Kennedy, 46, first moved out of the McLean, Va., home she shared with Senator Edward M. Kennedy, 50, the couple filed for divorce, declaring that there had been an "irretrievable breakdown" of their 24-year marriage. At one point during the brief hearing in Barnstable, Mass, (where they both stillvote), Joan appeared to be near tears, according...
...LOOKER SEES what he brings to it, but my family numbers among a bare handful of observers who, eight years ago, briefly saw in Namibia another type of parallel--a Kennedy-esque Camelot dream that ended in ruin. Between 1975 and 1978, when the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance was trying to splice the various majority and minority rules into a constitution at a national convention, my father served as legal counsel to Clemens Kapuuo, president of the moderate delegation and chief of the Herero tribe which, back in 1951, had been responsible for the original U.N. petition...