Word: singer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supremely confident that he will make it big in show business, whether through television, motion pictures, or even pop music. He is currently writing a horror movie script that will be both a comedy and a musical, and is forming his own ten-man band, featuring himself as lead singer...
That was 1960, when Kennedy was a journalist in San Juan and the future Nobel prizewinner was a visiting teacher at the University of Puerto Rico. The island was also where Kennedy met Dana Sosa, a gifted dancer-singer who forsook the stage to raise three children and help her husband buy time to write during the lean years...
...ever doubted the importance of good looks and a smoothe style to political success, but the emphasis on this to the exclusion of other qualities is getting ridiculous--as the Senate campaign is Washington reminds us. Here, no movie star or pop singer was good enough--this time the consultants had to reach into the grave, literally. It is hardly surprising that a candidate might look wistfully to the towering giants of bygone eras; Jackson was the only statesman my state has generated, a man respected in both Washingtons. Since he dies, several communities in Washington State have been vying...
...galvanizing or innovative style. But what he does have, an exuberancia of charm and sex appeal, would probably be enough to make even the croakings of Kermit the Frog sound like satin. For Iglesias, 40, all that machismo has done something more. It has made him the most popular singer in the world. The Spanish Sinatra, as he is sometimes called, has sold well over 100 million records in six languages...
...dark star of the Chronicle is one Mordecai Chaim Rumkowski, a character who might have tumbled from the pages of an Isaac Bashevis Singer novel. Installed as a leader called the Eldest of the Jews, he runs the ghetto with a lethal mix of egomania and compassion. No one can marry without his permission; no one is born or dies without his notice. Rumkowski orders postage stamps bearing his likeness; sycophants and fools dance in constant attendance. He seems fond of his charges, but he fully cooperates with the Nazis, supervises "deportations" that go directly to the ovens of Chelmno...