Word: idol
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...imposing structure obviously well fed by alumni. Inside the lobby is a small display case devoted to Michael Johnson's exploits, and seated in one of the plush chairs near the shrine is Johnson. He is friendly and modest and in no particular hurry. "Jesse Owens is my idol, but please don't compare me to him," he says. "I don't face the same pressures...
Celebrities, stay off your hogs! Billy Idol has fallen off his motorcycle and now another easy-riding idol, Keanu Reeves, has been felled in an accident on Sunset Boulevard. Police and Reeves' publicist agree it wasn't his fault (the driver of the Hyundai Excel who cut him off had better avoid Keanu fans). Reeves broke his ankle and was hospitalized for two days...
...meals, which he devours between meetings in his north Dallas district. (McDonald's hamburgers are more efficient than Wendy's, Armey says, because "they don't drip.") He is as likely to quote Popeye--"I yam what I yam," he told a town-hall gathering in April--as his idol, Nobel-prizewinning economist Milton Friedman. And as a devout libertarian conservative, the House majority leader steers by strong convictions--against farm subsidies, in favor of opening U.S. borders to more immigrants--even when those convictions put him at odds with some of his party's powerful interest groups...
Shortly before midnight on Monday, the Quad Howl brought the creators of the Easter Island god to stand-guard around the statue with seven-foot gas torches, like ancient witch doctors around their idol. Streakers danced around the god and chanted strange beebop tunes...
...Merry Prankster green and creating a huge circle of drum players and mourner-celebrants. One sign read, "Fare thee well, fare thee well, we miss you more than words can tell." In Manhattan's Central Park, 700 Deadheads gathered under the full moon at the memorial to another fallen idol, John Lennon. In Washington, where more than 300 souls converged on the Lincoln Memorial, Rush Jones, 25, spoke his anxiety in prime Dead style. Garcia's death marked "the end of a chapter of my life," he said. "Not with a dot, a period, but slammed shut, the ink still...