Word: idolator
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...Doren. a Columbia University English instructor who inherits the brilliance of the literary Van Doren clan, also enjoys a stranger triumph. Just by being himself, he has enabled a giveaway show, the crassest of lowbrow entertainments, to whip up a doting mass audience for a new kind of TV idol-of all things, an egghead...
Whether or not Nasution succeeds in bringing the rebels around, Ali seemed confident that he could keep his government in office. He probably could, so long as he continued to have the backing of exuberant President Sukarno, the idol of Indonesia's masses. With all the recent defections from his coalition, however, Ali will probably need the parliamentary support of the Communist Party, and will almost certainly soon include Communist ministers in his Cabinet-something Sukarno has long desired...
...Ivar Kreuger was both idol and symbol-not, as most men then thought, a Paul Bunyan of finance, but a gross glandular case of surpassing greed. Today, only one tiny match flare from Kreuger's mighty kingdom remains on the financial pages of U.S. newspapers. In mingled hope and irony, Kreuger & Toll 5% debenture bonds, with a $1,000 face value, sell on the N.Y. Stock Exchange for about $40. Before the bond's name appears the tiny letter "q," signifying "in bankruptcy...
...that was not all. Before leaving, sprightly and fickle little Hung had captured still another heart-that of the matinee idol Huang Ho himself. He had met her two years before in a movie studio. "She was fragile," he wrote later, "and looked as though she must have tasted the bitterness of life. I held her in high esteem, and never for a single moment cherished an impure thought toward her." But soon after their meeting, much to the shy young actor's surprise, Hung called him on the telephone. "She poured out her heart to me," he wrote...
...merits of the argument, the pictorial demonstration is compelling. The Great Man pounces quickly on its subject matter and, from first image to last, never lets go. Aiming a screenful of bile at the industry in general, it releases its most acidulous contempt at a single personality, an "American idol." Is it a roman a clef? Says Author Morgan: "No one has sued...