Word: stardust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trains. Visionary Stardust glittered from many of the President's other proposals. He wants a modest $20 million to study the possibility of a highspeed (200 m.p.h.) train between Washington and New York, and he will seek federal authority to control industrial air and water pollution. Both measures will probably pass easily. But he will find it harder to get funds to set up his suggested National Foundation for the Arts-if he really tries it. Congress' traditional distaste for spending tax money on culture cuts across liberal-conservative or even party lines...
Viva Las Vegas has the wholesome, mindless spontaneity it takes to create a successful Elvis Presley movie. This one gambles on hips, not chips. Chorus girls scamper through such neon fleshpots as the Stardust, Flamingo, Tropicana and Sahara, and Elvis himself, as wrinkleproof an example of modern packaging as anyone has yet produced, sings, dances, swims, water-skis, flies a helicopter and finally enters his baby-blue racing car in a big, exciting race referred to as the Las Vegas Grand Free...
...boys asked her the usual question about what advice she had for young girls with "stardust in their eyes," and she replied, demurely, that they should "keep their hearts straight, and give a lotta love." That is the only way, she claimed, that they "will get a lotta love." So keep that in mind, 'Cliffies...
...make use of the things that were right there," i.e., the Muzak speakers and some closed-circuit television cameras set up to watch the lobby. Cage wanted the TV to trigger the Muzak whenever people passed by or got in and out of elevators. But such familiar Muzak as Stardust and I'm in the Mood for Love would become electronically pulverized and filtered if Cage had his way, and there would be times when the traffic was light and there would be no music at all. The directors rejected the idea. Explained a vice president: "The American businessman...
...frame firmly on the boards, he neither rocks nor rolls, and his pelvis is so steady that it could house a seismograph. "I go out there to comfort the people," he says. His ministrations are weakest when he is doing old standards like Stardust or his gasping version of Hello Voting Lovers. But his fans are really there to hear Anka sing Anka, and he always scores with Diana, You Are My, Destiny, Put Your Head on My Shoulder...