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Word: idol (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Like his idol Adolf Schicklgruber, he was an unsuccessful painter. He went bust in the advertising business and broke as a traveling salesman, and was a dropout as publisher of a woman's magazine. Both his marriages failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radicals: Finis for the Fuhrer | 9/1/1967 | See Source »

...Anne's rise does not carry her to the chairmanship of a government agency, Miss Susann has made sure that Washington will not feel left out. The second heroine, a blonde sex-goddess called Jennifer North, wriggles from the clutches of a Spanish lesbian and divorces a retarded singing idol named Tony Polar to win the love of a senator named Win. Unfortunately, tragedy intervenes and Jennifer doses off a la Marilyn Monroe...

Author: By Anne DE Saint phalle, | Title: A Secretary's Schmaltz | 8/22/1967 | See Source »

...Thirty-eight years of such energy, courage and authority have made John Wayne the greatest moneymaker in movie history: the gross comes to nearly $400 million. He is still the hero by Hemingway out of Hollywood, the he-man's he-man and the she-fan's idol. He talks and looks as tough as ever, though it was less than three years ago that he lost a lung while, as he put it, "kicking the Big C (cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: The Duke at 60 | 6/9/1967 | See Source »

...Midnight Idol," your cover story on the Johnny Carson phenomenon and on television in general [May 19], was excellent. Carson is a refreshing breeze in what is literally a wasteland, with the exception of an occasional documentary or sports event...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 2, 1967 | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

...they spend $12 billion each year. That enchanting fact has prompted publishers to go after a share of the teen green. The first adolescent stirrings were detected more than ten years ago when two events of major import to teendom coincided: the birth of Elvis Presley as an idol and the death of James Dean. Suddenly publications bearing either one's name were selling half a million copies. Soon magazines were riding, first, the Beatles, then the Rolling Stones, and now the Monkees. Currently, half a dozen monthlies are healthily selling half a million copies and more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Aiming at the Hip | 6/2/1967 | See Source »

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