Word: glamourous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found. At Yale, Downey was a B.M.O.C.-a good student who majored in English literature, a sturdy guard on the football team and captain of the wrestling team. He was the kind of man the CIA liked to recruit, particularly in the cold-war days when the organization had glamour and an allure for ambitious, idealistic youth...
...some ways Whiting's life was as mysterious as his death. A former TIME correspondent (1968-1971) who grew up in Washington and graduated from Haverford College in Pennsylvania, Whiting, 26, loved to surround himself with Gatsby-like glamour and intrigue. Though not wealthy, he would lunch by himself with a bottle of champagne and fly to London to have a suit made-then fly back again the next week for a second fitting. When he became TIME'S Hollywood correspondent and began hobnobbing with stars, Whiting's fantasies became reality-for a time, anyway. During...
...liberal side stands Albert Blumenthal, 43, a skilled legislator who is assistant minority leader of the New York state assembly. Whoever wins will have to be a far different mayor from Lindsay. He will doubtless have less glamour or elan, and New York will sorely miss that. But he will have to be more attentive to administrative detail, more willing to bargain with the multitude of stridently competing groups that make up the city and are presently most unhappy with...
...stock market, Rip learns, has hit 1000, yet the go-go funds and glamour conglomerates are a sere and withered group. Unfamiliar newsworthies are summoned to his attention: Mary Jo Kopechne, Clifford Irving, Arthur Bremer, Vida Blue, Archie Bunker, Angela Davis, Daniel Ellsberg. There are new countries leaping up from the headlines, nations born while he was away...
When Rentzel turns to his relationship with Joey Heatherton, the writing looks more like a script for a soap opera than anything else. At one point, Rentzel says that Joey "seemed to have everything I wanted in a woman--sincerity, intelligence, talent, glamour, and incredible beauty." Later, he relates how Joey once neglected to tell him that she was going to be in New York for the weekend. The star receiver, angered by her apparent selfishness, compares the experience to "being hit by a linebacker from the blind side." Come on, Lance...