Word: idol
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...durable character actor who impersonated Teddy Roosevelt in no fewer than ten plays and movies; of cancer; in New York. From his film debut as an extra in a 1915 Perils of Pauline episode, Blackmer went on to gain fame as a '20s and '30s matinee idol. But his best performances came after his youth began to fade: he won a Tony in 1950 for his portrayal of Doc, the alcoholic husband, in William Inge's Come Back, Little Sheba, and most recently was the satanic warlock in the film Rosemary's Baby...
...Night is not Truffaut himself, but Truffaut as he once was, and would probably always like to be. He makes decisions cooly, creatively, and offers an almost paternal sympathy to each member of the production crew. It is an image to match with the greats, a cineaste's idol, and--for better or worse--the creation of a director paying homage to himself...
...foolish noise were a barren fuss embraced by barren hearts, and it was a lost child who would kick up such rubbish to gain entrance into rooms so empty." Written with a sympathetic intelligence, at times fiercely lyrical, Buried Alive is an honest book about Joplin the idol and Joplin the victim in the frantic, manic disarray of rock in the '60s. A meticulous researcher, Friedman has taken great pains to document the Joplin chronicle as exhaustively as one might document the biography of a statesman-with the result that the large cast of minor characters may be recognizable...
Williams adopted Tommie Smith, another long-legged, long-striding master of the 100-and 200-meter events, as his idol. "He had a distinctive high knee style," Williams explains, "and I worked on developing a knee lift. If I ran to catch a bus, I ran high knee lifts. That was all Tommie Smith's influence...
According to the first law of hero-dynamics, every epic action has an equal and opposite reaction. One nation's hero is some other nation's villain; one man's idol is another's voodoo doll. The second law is that legends tend to polarize and absolute legends polarize absolutely...