Word: goldings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crisis of confidence. Tehran airport has been jammed by wealthy Iranians trying to get out, carrying with them an estimated $20 million to $50 million in savings a day. Poorer villagers, hurriedly withdrawing money from the suddenly vulnerable banks, have been stuffing their mattresses with currency and buying gold. On the black market the value of the Iranian rial has plunged...
Curry, 29, an Englishman who won the gold medal for men's figure skating at the 1976 Olympics, was inevitably offered high-paying jobs by various ice shows. He turned them all down to pursue his own vision. "I don't like to criticize them," he told a reporter, "but I feel they are an antiquated form of entertainment. When I go to see ice shows, I don't actually see much skating. What I see is a lot of spectacle, a lot of camouflage, a lot of substitution, and very little of the real thing." What...
...Francisco Opera Medal was fashioned, quite appropriately, of Tiffany gold, in honor of Kurt Adler's 50 years in the opera business and 25 years as general director of the San Francisco company. And it came with a bonus: a benefit soirée at up to $500 a head, with a gaggle of golden-throated divas to sing his praises, among them Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Dorothy Kirsten, Bidú Sayāo and Licia Albanese. Leontyne Price declared that her former mentor is still the "guiding figure" in her career. Also a tough perfectionist. "Just when you think Adler...
That doesn't sound like the old Donna Summer talking. But then, she's singing a different tune too. Back in 1976, on her first hit, Love to Love You Baby, she got a gold record by simulating orgasm 22 times and cajoling, in her best jailbait voice, "Do it to me again and again." Her latest hit, taken from her platinum album, Live and More, is a discofied rendering of Jimmy L. Webb's Mac Arthur Park, in which Donna can rise above the hot-pants reveries of her earlier work into the headier regions of post-psychedelic poesy...
What she's got, most prominently, is a first-rate set of pipes, a ringing, theatrical voice that is locked in continual combat with the layered sound and dunce-cap lyrics of disco. With one platinum and five gold albums, Summer, 29, is the one incontestable star to emerge from the disco demimonde. Love to Love You Baby became a hit in the days when discos were not sprouting on every block, but were stashed in the closet along with the gay subculture from which they sprang...