Word: sinatras
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...life. To be on the attack is to be more readable." Though Safire describes himself as "a right-winger," never underestimate his fondness for creating a stir. In one column he savaged Reagan's new Attorney General, William French Smith, for attending a 65th birthday party for Frank Sinatra. It was bad enough, Safire wrote, for Reagan to turn to Sinatra for fund-raising help and to put him in charge of Inaugural entertainment, but for an Attorney General to involve himself with "a man obviously proud to be close to notorious hoodlums is the first deliberate affront...
...place in which to settle. Rock really is not his neighborhood; his fur-lined melodies and forthright sentimentality make him stand out among rockers like a Coupe de Ville at a demolition derby. Diamond has been a smash act in Las Vegas, but he is neither as smooth as Sinatra, as cloying as Wayne Newton nor as annoying as Steve Lawrence...
...this difficulty about categorization and definition sometimes gives even Diamond pause. "I fell between two musical generations," he admits. "I love Sinatra and Eddie Fisher. Yet I really loved the Beatles." The only folks who don't seem at all confused-or at least don't care if they are-are the millions of fans who have given Diamond, by his own reckoning, 20 platinum and gold albums and over 30 hit singles, including 1978's You Don't Bring Me Flowers, a duet with Barbra Streisand. Diamond loyalists right now are making their...
...that day's highlight will be Frank Sinatra's Inauguration eve gala at the Capital Centre in Maryland. Some 19,000 have been invited to pay from $50 to $10,000 (for a ten-seat box) to see OF Blue Eyes put on a show that will include Johnny Carson, Debby Boone, Donny Osmond, Ethel Mer man, Jimmy Stewart and Charlton Heston...
Administration theologist (George Will), classiest caterer (Finesse), top decorator (Ted Graber), happiest hobby (chopping wood), most dashing dress designer (Adolfo), most celebrated friend (Frank Sinatra) and the assistant President (Ed Meese...