Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fan of Tiny Tim, the Lebanese songbird who built stardom on a flutter and a falsetto, will be surprised to learn that he gets knots in his hair because he never combs or brushes it. It is perhaps more surprising that swarthy Tiny is heavily into beauty products. "He'd buy crates and crates of skin cream, and he would spend hours using it," writes his recently alienated wife "Miss Vicki," 20, in the Ladies' Home Journal. Other peeps into the private life of Herbert B. Khaury: "He has a fetish about food...
...when their peers and rivals are in the wings. Soprano Leontyne Price brings a chaste passion to Dove Sono from The Marriage of Figaro. Soprano Montserrat Caballe and Tenor Placido Domingo, turning to Manon Lescaut, ask each other Tu, tu amore? Tu?, and answer in the way every Puccini fan dreams of hearing but rarely does. Awesome is the word for Birgit Nilsson's portrayal of Salome's final 14 minutes on earth. As for the Act I love duet from Otello, Soprano Teresa Zylis-Gara sings with disciplined creaminess, but Tenor Franco Corelli, alas, gulps phrases...
Local loyalties were an important factor, and the most popular nonpolitical Man of the Year was Bob Devaney, coach of the University of Nebraska's championship football team. "He taught his team to play football the right way," explained one second-grade gridiron fan. Another contender not in public office was John Wayne ("He is one of the few actors who has not appeared on the screen in his birthday suit. As a minor I protest against all these R and X movies"). There was even evidence of Women's Lib on the grammar school level. A fifth...
...jockey on KVI in Seattle, has a different audience, the white middle class, and a different approach. He has taken a group up the slopes of Kilimanjaro and guided an expedition of gem hunters to the wilds of Idaho and Montana. Along the way, he has started a mock fan club of 15,000 for Seattle Pilots Shortstop Ray Oyler, who had the next to the lowest batting average in the American League one season, and he has led angry taxpayers to Olympia, the state capital, to press for tax reform...
...begins Yojimbo plot source of A Fistful of Dollars and one of the world's classic "westerns." It's a Japanese movie but contains many elements familiar to the fan of the American horse opera. There is the wandering, homeless hero, the isolated town being destroyed by rival factions, a beautiful woman in distress and finally, a showdown--Japanese style. However, Yojimbo goes beyond all this and so avoids the mediocrity of a morass of cliches. Akira Kurosawa, the director, who focused world attention on Japanese cinema with Rashoman and Seven Samurai, succeeds in Yojimbo without resorting to either didacticism...