Word: idol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fundamental Femininity. While Cycladic figures do not seem to breathe, they are still for the connoisseur intensely alive objects. "A Cycladic idol of a woman is very much like the figure of the woman we see on the beach today," points out Dealer Emmerich. "We are in contact with the man of 5,000 years ago, because we have something to share with him-the experience of what is fundamental in femininity." And for Manhattan Collector Allan Emil, there is an added attraction: "If you buy a Henry Moore, which costs more, you know at least half a dozen copies...
...creditors. His deliverance came in 1864-seven years after he had started work on Tristan-when Ludwig II was crowned king of Bavaria. An effeminate, blue-eyed, ethereally handsome lad who was Wagner's most ardent admirer, Ludwig, then 18, dispatched an emissary to track down his idol, finally discovered the composer holed up in an attic room of a hotel in Stuttgart...
...just give out." He gives out into a place with jukebox at poolside, a den for his 31 gold (million-seller) single records. There is a private suite for him and another for his grandmother, Mrs. Minnie Presley, 74. He doesn't like to think about Elvis the idol when he's not working. When ABC's Shindig celebrates his tenth anniversary this week by singing his songs, he might not even watch. "I don't regard money or position as important. But I can never forget the longing to be someone. I guess...
Rojack murders his wife (an emasculating Great Bitch), tangles with cunning police, staggers into involuting imbroglios with an opportunistic fraulein, a southern chanteuse, a negro singing idol and, through them, with larger or vaguer or uglier forces--the Mafia, haut society, the Muslims, dirty politics, high finance, television, university intelligencia...
...first, that's where big business is. And second, the Cabinet, while long on brains, was somewhat short on politics. As a result, the Eisenhower Administration turned out, in the eyes of the public, to be almost exclusively Anglo-Saxon and Protestant, even though Eisenhower himself remained the idol of all elements in the country...