Word: idolator
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rapping in the hotel room, and would then catch a few hours sleep before stumbling to her typewriter the next day to file her story. Vallely is no stranger to the pop music world. She has been a Ronstadt fan since 1970, helped research a cover story on Rock Idol Bruce Springsteen (TIME, Oct. 27, 1975), and reports on entertainment from the Los Angeles bureau. Says Vallely of our cover subject: "Linda is the most unstarlike of any star I've run across. Rock singers are royally indulged, surrounded by yes men. It's pretty hard for them...
...when he finally stood on the Capitol steps to be sworn in as President on his own right, he loomed large over the small people in the street below. That is the way he liked it to be. Most people watched John Kennedy as if he were a matinee idol. They were awed and entertained but realized that his was a special preserve that could not be shared without the proper certification of family, school and bank balance. Leadership was seen at the top. Can it come from the bottom...
...Bootleg cars, the epitome of American technology devoted, as it so often is, to breaking the law. And because I was just as drunk as they were, and very nearly as foolish, I stood out between them with my arms raised, and their headlights illuminated me like a Christian idol on some South American mountain top. I dropped my arms, and the two cars slid by me spitting and kicking gravel...
...that coach Dave Fish lugged his 35mm and telephoto out to the Longwood tennis tournament to catch some shots of idol Ken Rosewall last August, but was driven away by a horde of swarming gnats...
...gals in Bluefield, West Virginia can rest easy tonight. Fired on by the wrath of the small jade idol he occasionally worships, loveable wrestling scientist and general all around lady's man Bobo Brazil beat the scurrilous and deceitful Man Mountain Mike in the sport's first loser-loses-sex match...