Word: idol
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...erupts, fueled by the public's revived awareness of environmental abuse. Behind the contested $35-40 million project is not ITT but the corporation created by a childhood exemplar of the Leave-It-to-Beaver generation--the father of Bugs Bunny and Donald Duck, Walt Disney. Thus fell another idol of Maynard's generation...
...gigging a round of one-night stands. Based in New York, Willwerth has reported on the multibillion-dollar record business for TIME for several years. It was while working on a cover story on the industry (TIME, Feb. 12, 1973) that Willwerth first heard of Springsteen, then the idol of a small but growing cult. After listening to an acetate pressing of the struggling rock rebel's first album, Willwerth marked Springsteen as a singer to remember...
...1930s. Lewis (Jeff Bridges) is not far enough into adulthood to know he is there, but in any case his head is full of the prime fantasies of good pulp fiction. He wants to be a writer, particularly of cowboy stories, most specifically like those of his idol, Zane Grey. Lewis has the master's formula down pretty tight ("One thing leads to another, and pretty soon he's got a story"), and can emulate his prose with zest ("A Colt in either hamlike fist...
...first attempt at decorating since she married Nelson Rockefeller twelve years ago, Happy Rockefeller has given the house a soothing cast of whites and beiges, enlivened with comfortable furnishings in warm earth tones. Among the buffet guests invited to ogle the digs were Movie Idol Cary Grant, TV Hostess Barbara Walters, Astronaut Alan Shepard and Publisher William Randolph Hearst. Happy Rockefeller will not be standing on ceremony with any of them. "I just want everyone to feel they can have a good time," she says, "and put their feet up and relax." She does contemplate one further addition: a swing...
...party, Queenie, Jolly's much-abused girl friend, is pursued and eventually seduced by a brilliantined matinee idol named Dale Sword (Perry King). From jealousy and an encroaching sense of failure, Jolly goes to pieces, and the party follows right along. There is all manner of period decadence festooning the screen, rendered too campily by Director James Ivory (Shakespeare Wallah) to have much force...