Word: lana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Politicians are suckers for the Schwab's drugstore myth. So when George Bush plucked Dan Quayle from obscurity and made him his running mate, he no doubt thought he had discovered a raw young talent who could be molded into a Lana Turner sensation, a blue-eyed Everyboy who could appeal to conservatives, baby boomers and women alike. But Quayle may turn out to be the Marion Davies of the 1988 campaign; like the young, little-known comedienne William Randolph Hearst tried to impose on the public as a Hollywood glamour queen, Quayle does not fit the grandiose role that...
...during the age of suburban "togetherness," Superman's keepers actually married him off to Lois Lane, but they soon explained that the bride had only dreamed of her wedding. Since those keepers were generally desperate for new plot twists, they often amused themselves by bringing in rivals to Lois. Lana Lang, for example, was an old acquaintance of Kent's from Smallville who applied for a job at the Planet. Then there was a Supergirl who appeared as a result of Cub Reporter Jimmy Olsen's making a wish over a Latin American idol. No sooner was she dispatched back...
However, sandwiched between Harvardiana and Hubris lana are the exploits behind the Major H's. An introductory chapter on "Harvard and the Ivy League," sections on individual sports, short features on outstanding athletes and coaches, and scores of photographs fill the pages of Bertagna's captivating history...
...than 4,000 films in its library, is paying up to $180,000 a movie for computerized-color versions of such classsics as the 1942 musical Yankee Doodle Dandy, starring James Cagney, and the 1941 version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which featured Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner. Hal Roach Studios, which owns 35% of Colorization, expects to have 15 movies for sale or rental in video shops by next spring, including ten Laurel and Hardy features and the original, 1937 version of Topper, starring Gary Grant and Constance Bennett...
Across town another man might vicariously fulfill himself by stepping into Clark Gable's shoe prints on a Hollywood sidewalk, another woman might prove herself Lana Turner's equal in some way on the same boulevard. But these souls in the Coliseum had more action in their dreams: they had beaten the wind in the arena of the swift. Having achieved that, they would step back into the throng and go about their jobs...