Word: idol
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Main target of Sholokhov's scorn was plainly Evgeny Evtushenko, 28, the current idol of serious poetry lovers and the young intelligentiki. A shaggy, twice-married Angry Young Muscovite who sports jazzy French suits and boasts a modern, two-room apartment, Evtushenko looks, and at times sounds, rather like a beat Keats. Though he produces periodic Party paeans on such acceptable themes as the Communist worker, Evtushenko is celebrated for vividly erotic lyrics ("Coursing regally, your whole body feels you are a queen") that have drawn down official ire for their "scandalous and somewhat noisy notoriety." One poem that...
Greyfriars Bobby. Walt Disney unleashes another muttinee idol in this film about the little Skye terrier who, a century ago, won the freedom of the city of Edinburgh. Children will...
...offers this glossy rebrush of the book. Children will do well to sit up and beg for the film, and even grown-up judges may affectionately award it a tear-soaked blue ribbon. Actor Mackenzie is wonderfully canty and touching as Auld Jock-and as a muttinee idol the Skye's the limit...
...have tossed satiric vitriol at the corporate image; instead, he paints a mustache on it. Bob Fosse might have whipped the dance chorus into the routine cattle stampede; instead, he stop-motions his dancers like mannequins in a shopwindow, and scatters them like parched, tormented acolytes around the ritualistic idol of an empty coffee machine in Coffee Break. Rudy Vallee cups his hands, megaphone-fashion, around collegiate Grand Old Ivy to give it just the kiss of the hops from Stein Song days, and the rest is a delectable kiss-off of all that nostalgic '20s razzmatazz. Frank Loesser...
...then primitive civil and military air fleets. Says Jones: "When they began asking me how to get a better use of their resource in order to accomplish their total national objective, I knew that I wanted the job." With his new bride, Ruth-the daughter of onetime Screen Idol Conrad Nagel-Jones flew down to Rio. where, at 27, he helped to write budgets and civil air codes, chose airport locations, taught pilots, and primed local industries to supply spare parts. After four exhilarating years, fearful of becoming an expatriate, Jones returned to California and signed on with Rand Corp...