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Word: sinatras (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clearly, the Shah in exile will not want for comfort as he ponders his next move. The Annenberg estate, while only a temporary headquarters, would rival the opulence of, say, a Persian king. Its 200 verdant acres, surrounded by California desert, are reached by way of Frank Sinatra Drive. Electronically operated gates open onto a flower-flanked drive and the sprawling dusky pink volcanic-rock main mansion, with its five bedrooms and 6,400-sq.-ft. living room. The compound includes two five-bedroom guesthouses, a swimming pool, several lakes, and a nine-hole golf course, all maintained by some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: The Shah Takes His Leave | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...right for slow dancing in elevators. Consequently, Coury is often on the aesthetic defensive, making heated claims for such slick popsicles as the Bee Gees by stating, "They're having a greater impact on music today than ten Bruce Springsteens! Rita Coolidge sings their songs and so does Frank Sinatra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Man Who Sells the Sizzle | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

...friends, is discreet about most of her enemies and as demure as a schoolgirl about herself. One is never sure if her virginity was lost or simply faded slowly like the Cheshire cat. Still, the lady knows how to settle a score. On being romanced and jilted by Frank Sinatra after Bogart's death in 1957: "Actually, Frank did me a great favor-he saved me from the disaster our marriage would have been. The truth is he was probably smarter than I: he knew it couldn't work. But the truth also is that he behaved like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Bringing Up Bogie's Baby | 12/25/1978 | See Source »

Even the most knowledgeable American pop-music fan would be hard pressed to identify Dean Reed. But in the Soviet Union, the Denver-born country-and-western singer is more popular than Frank Sinatra. His frequent concert tours of Communist countries draw S.R.O. crowds; his songs, which frequently blend Marxist-inspired lyrics with twanging strains of the Nashville sound (one big hit: War Goes On), sell in the millions. Last week the 40-year-old singer gained a new notoriety in his homeland; he turned up as the focus of the Kremlin's latest effort to get back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: Who Is Dean Reed? | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...debut is the most recent in a string of cosmetic admissions in the '70s by public figures. Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire, for one, issued a press release about his hair transplant and may have had an eyelift too. There has also been news of hair transplants for Frank Sinatra, Roy Clark and Strom Thurmond, a facelift for Jackie Gleason, face and breast architectural work for Cher, an eyelift, facelift and breast reduction for Phyllis Diller, and there is a growing national tendency to regard cosmetic surgery as a badge of sophistication, rather than of vanity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Unveiling of a New Ford | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

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