Word: idolator
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...letting her rest so she's ready for Springfield," MacAusland said...After nine games, only Ann Velie, Sara LeBlond, Maureen Finn and Martin have started every one...Forward Finn played a fine game, although her name didn't show up in the scoring summaries. "Kate Martin's my idol," the goal-less sophomore joked after the game...
...this sounds like the hyperbole of extreme disappointment, of bitter frustration at the fall of a modern comic idol, it is. Stardust Memories may be funnier than one cares to admit but Allen's eighth film is certainly no comedy. It's not a tragedy either, or even a strangled drama like Interiors. It smells most like a farce, a self-pitying self-satire. It is so contemptuously intellectual that the jokes about intellectuals are not funny but ironic. "Intellectuals are like the Mafia: they only kill their own," Allen snaps, acknowledging his brand of artistic suicide. Allen was once...
Larry Holmes, the favorite, is up against his idol, or as Ali says, his "master." As Ali grows older, his student may have surpassed him in skill and practices (as Rocky Marciano passed Joe Louis). But Holmes will never surpass Ali in one thing: drive...
...unless my coaches tell me I've just got to. The whole process is kind of undignified for me and the young man." Not necessarily. Says one former recruit: "Just knowing that that man came into my home to talk to my parents made me an idol around high school...
...notoriety than their reheated acid rock. Before he bloated his body with booze and fried his brain with various combinations of pharmacological excess, Morrison, the son of a rear admiral, was as stunning as a model. He was also the self-appointed model for the self-destructive rock idol...