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Word: idol (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been recovered. Clemente, three crew members and another passenger had perished. Governor-elect Rafael Hernandez Colon immediately canceled the formal ball that was to have followed his inauguration last week, and three days of mourning were declared. "Roberto died serving his fellow man," Colon said. "Our youth loses an idol. Our people lose one of their glories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Requiem for Roberto | 1/15/1973 | See Source »

...preening, actors and actresses, whores and Catholics His young provincial gapes at a boarding house harem of freaks: a bloated beauty in raven locks, a garrulous has-been actor, and the lady of the house, a mound of spongy gray flesh-presiding over it all like some claphantine idol Fellini lingers nostalgically over the bizarre figures of his youth. The inevitable bulging whores strut before an ogling crowd; gesticulating Italians gorge themselves at a gala outdoor banquet. The bordellos, churches, and cafes can't contain these Romans. and they spill out into the streets, faces twisted into the shapes...

Author: By Michart Levenson, | Title: Actors, Actresses, Whore and Catholics | 1/15/1973 | See Source »

...doll in the ass, a replies of a penis that shot whipped cream over the first ten or so rows of the orchestra, and others too humerous to mention. In 1968, IT WAS CALLED SOCIAL SATIRE. But times have changed, and Alice Cooper is now "the droog as cult-idol." And his stage act is called "ominous, overwhelming, primal...

Author: By Frederick Boyd, | Title: In Defense of Alice Cooper | 12/14/1972 | See Source »

...plays football, likes big-bosomed dames, all-night orgies, is making boxcars of money and is generally "doing his thing." This is the American idol? GRETTER D. TALBERT Wilmington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1972 | 11/6/1972 | See Source »

Smith showed his class in the first match against Nastase, 26, keeping his cool while the gallery of 6,500 partisan fans shouted "Hai, Ili-uta!" ("Go, little Hie!"). Nastase, an army lieutenant and the closest thing Rumania has to a matinee idol, ran the gamut of his storied antics. He danced back and forth while waiting for a serve, interrupted play to swat at a fly with his racket, and soccer-kicked a ball to the sidelines. The crowd lapped it up, but Smith refused to be shaken. Leading 10-9 in the first set, he responded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rumanian Rhubarb | 10/30/1972 | See Source »

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