Word: gorgeousity
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...many ways fascinating and often fun. Everyone who lived through the period carries a mental collage of its dense popular culture; one remembers it now with a small smile of disbelief at the ingenious pointlessness of it: Milton Berle and Pinky Lee, My Little Margie and American Bandstand, Gorgeous George and Johnny Ray, and Elvis televised from the waist up on the Ed Sullivan Show. Grace Metalious (Peyton Place) and Mickey Spillane were available for mildly salacious excitement; the new tranquilizers (Miltown, Thorazine) saw to the jitters of civilization; Fulton Sheen and Norman Vincent Peale attended to the soul...
...three hours the capacity crowd of 103,000 at Moscow's Lenin Stadium gazed in wonder at the gorgeous pageantry: a replica of a Greek chariot circling the track, dance troupes, precision ribbon twirlers, and a torchbearer who reached the top of the stadium by climbing a human staircase formed by some 500 soldiers holding wooden panels above their heads with the aid of sturdy braces. There was even a flash-card crew of 2,000 soldiers spelling out slogans like O SPORT, YOU ARE PEACE, HAPPINESS...
...have searched my vocabulary for one word that best describes the photograph of Mount St. Helens. I considered gorgeous, fantastic, astounding, awesome, but decided...
...studded with hundreds of pup tents. A senior talks about cadet life and the coming graduation. Another woman walks casually by in shorts and T shirt, her platinum hair neatly blown in a Dorothy Hamill haircut. The reporter is startled by her own instinctive response: How could this gorgeous girl be headed for an Army career? The thought is broken by an angry shout. Off to the side, male cadets are snidely calling to the women to come to formation. "Buzz off," comes the hot answer. "People say we can run, we're big, and we're ugly...
...Olympics took up two weeks of my time, and caused tears, laughs, tensions and above all excitement. I truly felt the patriotic joy that all Americans are supposed to have. Now that the Games are over, I will miss my gorgeous hockey team, incomparable Ingemar Stenmark and incredible Eric Heiden. I wasn't there, but I have new friends and heroes...