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Word: glitters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Glitter v. Quiet. Though Post poured some $30 million of his personal fortune into Tres Vidas and borrowed millions more, the resort continued to sink deeper into the red. In 1971 Braniff International Corp. took over managerial control from the man who was once its chairman and began doing away with his members-only notion. "Tres Vidas," announced Braniff, "is a private-membership country club. Guests are currently being accepted on a get-acquainted basis ..." With visions of the hoi polloi overrunning their dream resort, remaining members began to shy away, hastening the downfall of Tres Vidas. By 1974 Braniff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ENTREPRENEURS: Paradise Lost | 11/10/1975 | See Source »

...been called the "last innocent in rock," which is at best partly true, but that is how he appears to audiences who are exhausted and on fire at the end of a concert. Springsteen is not a golden California boy or a glitter queen from Britain. Dressed usually in leather jacket and shredded undershirt, he is a glorified gutter rat from a dying New Jersey resort town who walks with an easy swagger that is part residual stage presence, part boardwalk braggadocio. He nurtures the look of a lowlife romantic even though he does not smoke, scarcely drinks and disdains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Backstreet Phantom of Rock | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

...That was the most frightening moment of my life," said British Rock Star Elton John, after fighting his way through a crowd of glitter groupies and onto the tennis courts at Forest Hills, N.Y. Armed with a sparkling forehand and pink, star-shaped sunglasses, Elton had joined Ted and Ethel Kennedy, plus some 40 celebrity racket wielders for the fourth annual Robert F. Kennedy charity tournament. While Jackie Onassis and Daughter Caroline watched, along with 13,000 other spectators, Tennis Pro Tony Roche collected first prize (a $12,000 BMW car) in the doubles competition with help from his partner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 8, 1975 | 9/8/1975 | See Source »

...remember too much about that evening; dropping acid is a hum-drum every night occurrence. But old Daniel, from the moment he first laid eyes upon the Delac, was sure he'd never forget a ride in her. So Gay steered him into the white leather and silver glitter back seat that's as plump and as soft as a Cherubim's rosy- checked behind, the four feet of leg-room sucking him into a state of heavenly transport punctuated by means of "Far out, Too much..." and hideous witch cackling that had gotten all twisted up somewhere deep down...

Author: By Edmond P.V. Horsey, | Title: Elsewhere in the Summer, at Pegleg Mac's | 8/12/1975 | See Source »

...votes had been tallied, Novelli, the nervous, chain-smoking Turin editor of the Communist newspaper L'Unita, announced: "In keeping with the requirement for an absolute majority, I hereby proclaim the elected mayor of the city of Turin to be Councilman Diego Novelli." Thus amid pomp and glitter Novelli became the Piedmont city's first Communist mayor in 25 years, and Turin became the biggest city in Western Europe (pop. 1.2 million) under Red control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Red Rule in Fiat City | 7/28/1975 | See Source »

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