Word: idol
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Otto Kruger, 89, durable actor who mastered the art of portraying complex, almost amiable villains; following a series of strokes; in Los Angeles. Kruger spent the first part of his long career as a Broadway matinee idol...
...putting up to bat against NBC's highly rated Today show their own news-cum-interviews program, AM America. Former New York City Mayor Lindsay will appear once a week as a guest commentator and interviewer. After many years' experience in amateur theatricals, Including political conventions, Matinee Idol Lindsay will also make his movie debut soon. This week in Paris he joins the cast of Otto Preminger's Rosebud, playing a cameo role for which he probably feels well rehearsed-that of a U.S. Senator. He wouldn't say whom he is modeling his performance...
Nowhere, Ornstein believes, is that confluence more needed than in psychology, which he contends has been too narrowly confined by the behaviorists and the positivists. He wants to return to the broader preoccupation with consciousness and subconsciousness shared by earlier thinkers, including his idol William James. The road back has led Ornstein to Zen and the I Ching...
...Harlem of Great Britain." Her mother is a retired coffee-shop waitress. Her father, who died last year, was a mechanic who spent his evenings picking out popular ballads on the family piano. The family celebrity was his sister Doris Droy, a vaudeville singer and Maggie's idol, who was billed as "Suicide...
Tanya Tucker, who is just 15, was anointed last month by her idol, Merle Haggard. Accompanied as always by her parents, brother and sister, she attended his Manhattan concert and went backstage first. It was the day before The Hag's birthday, so Tanya sang Happy Birthday into his ear. As a reward, Merle invited her onstage to sing her hit, Delta Dawn...