Word: stardom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strong men cry, and Washington Redskins Linebacker Sam Huff's turn came as he announced his retirement after a brutal twelve-year career, during which he made All-Pro five times. Now 33, Defenseman Huff (TIME Cover, Nov. 30, 1959) went from West Virginia to eight years of stardom with the New York Giants, playing on five championship teams, before he was traded to Washington four years ago. "Everyone has to do it some time and it's my time now," Sam sniffed, but he couldn't help leaving the door unlatched. "If they needed me, really...
...Harvard, the big difference going into this year's opener is the increased confidence derived from playing on an 8-1 championship team. Typical is Ric Zimmerman, who had to win his quarterback position in pre-season practice last fall and then was feeling his way to stardom for the first four and a half games. This year he is starting off as one of the best play-callers in the East...
...just listen?they feel." They also fear?and in some cases hope?that they may be witnesses to a breakdown, which is one of the compelling attractions exerted by this durable but disaster-prone star. Her audiences arrive, it seems, achingly aware of Judy's tortured past: her teenage stardom and traumas, her voice crack-ups and innumerable busted contracts, her four broken marriages to increasingly younger men (she just broke off an engagement to a public relations man 16 years her junior), and her ailments and suicide attempts. As a result, she evokes a purgative pity and terror...
During the '20s, Georgina dances in a kind of Cotton Club revue up in Harlem until the Depression, presumably white-inspired, puts her out of work. The never-aging lovers tiff as Clem takes up the cause of the Negro, while Georgina relentlessly pursues her personality cult to stardom. In a phenomenally unsurprising ending, Clem, now a civil rights leader, clinches with Georgina, who has tasted the empty celebrity worship of white sycophants...
Julie, in short, is something else-in Hollywood, but not with it. Unencumbered by the cotton-candy fantasy life in which most stars invariably shroud themselves, she has stayed resolutely honest and unspoiled. She is an actress, as Librettist Alan Jay Lerner once remarked, who achieved stardom "with nothing to offer but talent, industry and an uncorrupted heart...