Word: crowds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leader as the world heads into the 1980s, which she dubbed the "dangerous decade." Said she: "Let us go down in history as the generation which not only understood what needed to be done but had the strength, the self-discipline and the resolve to see it through." The crowd interrupted a number of times with applause and ended with a standing ovation. By any standard, Maggie Thatcher's debut in the U.S. was a socko performance...
...Hermitage ("I am not a nibbler but a glutton") to U.S. Industrialist Joseph Hirshhorn, the great benefactor of the Smithsonian ("I have a madman's rage for art"). To be sure, such stupendous collectors and donors still make record purchases. But it is not the proud possessors who crowd the salesrooms and find bonanzas in baubles...
...brunette film star of the '30s and '40s who debuted as Paul Muni's sister in the 1932 gangland classic Scarface; of cancer; in Honolulu. The smoky-voiced Dvorak was best known for playing suffering, hard-luck women opposite such stars as James Cagney (The Crowd Roars), Dick Powell (College Coach) and Spencer Tracy (Sky Devils...
...even laughs at her own pretensions to stardom. She announces that she is "a screen star, in the tradition of Shirley Temple, Liv Ullmann and Miss Piggy." When the audience good-naturedly boos one of her jokes, she exclaims: "The crowd turns on the diva. [Pause] But the diva doesn't care!" Her singing, much of it done with three saucy young women called the Harlettes, is no threat to Streisand, or even Minnelli. But it bursts with feeling-almost too much for mere lyrics to express...
...flared in her left hand and she was forced to enter a local hospital for treatment. When she emerged the next day, her hand was red and swollen to nearly twice its normal size. Despite obvious pain, she competed in one more event, the balance beam, and as the crowd gasped, whipped through two flipflops, bearing all her weight on one hand. Nadia's courageous effort was good for a 9.95. The next day she returned to the hospital and surgeons operated on her hand to drain the infection. Understandably, Nadia looked grim all week. Said she: "I have...