Word: lusterizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...State engineering student who was rejected by the college glee club, he formed his first band (a jazz quartet) in 1917, eventually adding voices and more instruments. Between its 1933 debut and 1949, it presented one of radio's most popular shows; the advent of rock dimmed its luster, however, and in the years before Waring's official 1980 retirement the size of both the group and its audiences shrank. On the side, in 1937, Waring used his tinkering skills to perfect, patent and market his Blendor, one of the first food processors, which earned him royalties...
...last chapter, reigning Miss America Vanessa Williams, a spirited 21 and going for the glory, got caught in some compromising positions. Ten of them, to be exact, to be published in Penthouse, a skin magazine with the luster of a no-wax floor. Officials of the Miss America Pageant, aghast, asked for her resignation. Williams said she would think about it over the weekend...
Nonetheless, the absence from the Los Angeles Olympics of such Soviet world-record holders as Pole Vaulter Sergei Bubka, High Jumper Tamara Bykova and Swimmer Vladimir Salnikov, and of the East German athletes who have come close to dominating women's track and field, will greatly diminish the luster of many events (see following story). True, the rivalry will be broader than in the 1980 Olympics, which drew athletes from only 81 nations to Moscow. Attendance at Los Angeles might equal, or even surpass, the high of 122 countries represented at the 1972 Games in Munich?though much depends...
...Heard on the Street" column for which Winans started to write was influential but had lost a bit of luster in the past few years. Begun in its present format in 1967 by Charles Elia, the feature became an institution during Wall Street's go-go days. Says Elia, now an investment manager: "The whole idea was to get at something that was creating movement in stocks, to try to learn as much as we could. In the early years firms were reluctant to release their research findings and we had to pry it out." Elia was joined...
...been banned from performing until he can prove himself innocent of being a Nazi sympathizer. Onto his podium steps a 33-year-old music, mathematics and philosophy student from Rumania named Sergiu Celibidache. Despite his lack of professional experience, Celibidache more than restores the orchestra's prewar luster. "A baton genius, beyond any doubt," declares one Berlin critic. Only his former teacher at Berlin's Hochschule für Musik, Heinz Tiessen, fails to join the praise. "My, what an idiot you are," Tiessen tells him. "You are making effects, not music...