Word: enthusiast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dance; that way, if they were seen practicing capoeira, they could say that they were merely dancing. It was finally legalized in 1937, and in the past few years has gained broad popularity-as a folk art rather than as a self-defense tactic. "It has everything," says an enthusiast. "It is a beautiful dance, the music is contagious, it is spectacular exercise, it is airtight self-defense, and it is poetry...
...because I grew up with him, knowing him as a kid; he gives such credit to his audiences' imagination. I got high on it." Franco Zeffirelli obviously not only spotted York's acting ability, or his ugly good looks, but also detected in him a fellow addict, a lasting enthusiast for the genius of the Bard...
This peaceful life was interrupted because Rehnquist had made friends with Richard Kleindienst. another Phoenix lawyer and Goldwater enthusiast. When Kleindienst came to Washington as the No. 2 man in John Mitchell's Justice Department, he urged Rehnquist to join the Nixon team. In January of 1969, Rehnquist became head of the department's Office of Legal Counsel, which made him, as Nixon put it, "the President's lawyer's lawyer...
...those years Pound was, by any measure, an extraordinary man. He was the American poet who read the Classics diligently, mixing Idaho slang with Italian, Latin and Greek. He was the enthusiast who could leap and tap-dance his way through the streets of Venice after watching a Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers film. He was the public figure who had his own strong theories of economics and who travelled to America with hopes of preventing war between the U.S. and Italy, and of selling his friend Mussolini to F.D.R. When his daughter was fully weaned from the mountain soil...
Plain jeans are no longer adequate for even the plainest Jane: now the enthusiast can saunter into an expensive boutique like New York City's Billingsley, be interviewed by freelance Costume Designer Linda Sampson, hand her a battered set of denims and return two weeks later to pick up a sort of patchwork personality portrait, sewn together by Linda for $200 or so. Customers do not seem to worry that her interpretations of their personalities will be too freaky. "Basically," she says, "people will wear anything they can get away with." New Yorker Jann Johnson, 24, carries the idea...