Word: elephantitis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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As a rock star he created Ziggy Stardust, the orange-haired founder of bisexual chic. In his 1976 film debut, he played Thomas Jerome Newton, the cat-eyed extraterrestrial of The Man Who Fell to Earth. Now, British-born David Bowie, onetime idol of the glitter set, has come in...
Hart Plaza, the two-block esplanade on the Detroit River that connects the Joe Louis Arena and the gleaming silos of the Renaissance Center, became a kind of urban village green. As delegates strolled by, hawkers peddled goods ranging from elephant baseball hats to Ronald Reagan dolls. Exotic odors of...
Sellers loved gadgets, too. He once owned a garage laid with 500 feet of model railroad track. He bought more than 50 cars in his day, and loved his Rolls-Royce as much as the next guy. His prized toy was a life-sized mechanical elephant.
Not that he rode the elephant for sport. To stay in shape, Sellers did a stint as vice-president of the London Judo Club and was never one to skip a few innings at the Marylbone Cricket Club. But soon the heart attacks started coming, the first in 1964, and...
In an attempt to anticipate rising costs closer to home, the three schools in the Medical Area jacked up their tuition for next year between 15 and 20 per cent. At the Medical School, where tuition went up 20 per cent, Mitchell L. Adams '66, dean for finance and business...