Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With Leonard Bernstein and Franco Zeffirelli making their Metropolitan Opera debut together in a new production of Verdi's Falstaff, the Met was sure of a sensation. What kind of sensation was a different matter. Bernstein, never one to conceal any possible hidden talents, had not conducted in a...
Clamoring promoters, elbowing newsmen and shrieking fans crowded around Manuel Benitéz, 26, known as El Cordobés, the newest sensation of the bullfight world. He has been a professional less than three years, was not even a full-fledged matador until last May. But this year he...
Novelist Naipaul takes as his hero a 62-year-old bachelor, Mr. Stone, head librarian in a commercial firm, who treasures all the "uncreative years" of his life "comfortingly stacked away in his mind." But one day, sitting in the pub at lunchtime sipping his glass of Guinness, he becomes...
Sophomore sensation Bruce Fowler turned in an impressive 2:23.6 to take the 200-yard breastroke, but for once his perpetual swimming mate porky pits wasn't right there to back him up.
She went to Miss Hewitt's in Manhattan, 1'Academie Maxim's and the Sorbonne in Paris-and debuted at Newport in 1960. He went to the Royal Naval College, Oxford's Brasenose College, and was a Coldstream Guardsman. Now that, as they say in the...