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...sovereignty of the faith as if pugilism were the true church of Christ in Everlast and Fat City the terminus of the Celestial Railroad. So, they shore Ali of his title, and with silent supplications for the second coming of the Great White Hope, called for a new idol...

Author: By Tony Hill, | Title: Say It Ain't So, Says Joe | 1/31/1973 | See Source »

...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 »

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