Word: idolator
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...seriously suggests that Nehru will be replaced as India's leader while he lives. To his country, he is not a statesman but an idol. Each morning, large crowds assemble on the lawn outside his New Delhi home. Some present petitions or beg favors, but thousands, in recent weeks, have handed over money or gold dust for the national defense. Most come just to achieve darshan, communion, with the country's leader. The throng is comforted and reassured, not by the words, but by the presence of Nehru...
...Viva Velinton!" When the Spanish master met the then Lord Wellington in 1812, the 43-year-old Briton was the idol of Spain. The streets echoed with cries of "Y viva Velinton!," and beautiful women rushed forward to cover him with kisses. Had Goya been a less truthful artist, he might have tried to idealize the man into some sort of benign hero surrounded by the trappings of glory...
Adultery is a criminal offense in many parts of the world,* but arrests are rare, particularly where famous figures are involved. Choi was the Rock Hudson of Korea, idol of the pigtail set. Kim was once called by a Korean movie critic "the sweetest-looking girl in the free world." Both were married, to others...
...enough to be a lineman." At first, he threw his passes sidearm-which mattered little, because Troy High never passed anyway: the star of the team was a 200-lb. fullback named Bob Ferguson who went on to Ohio State and All-America honors. Ferguson was Myers' idol: "Everybody in town was talking about how he was going to be able to go to college because of his football ability. I figured I might be able to go if I was as good...
...merciless closeups, more eloquently than the script, make the picture's point: it's hard for a mere woman to be a movie goddess. Affair's scenario is creepily Bardographical. It tells the story of a simple girl who doesn't enjoy being a movie idol. She signs autographs as if on her own death warrant, views mobs of admirers from the back seat of her white Citroën like some tumbrel-borne Marie Antoinette, hysterically adopts a lover-of-the-week policy. Finally, after fainting in the midst of a rabble of fans...