Word: starrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Richard Nixon's celebrity roster is also brief-but heterogeneously charming. Its stars include Ray Bolger, John Wayne, Bart Starr, Ginger Rogers, Joe Louis and Rudy Vallee, who adjudges Nixon "the most qualified man in this country, intellectually and emotionally." Oddly, none of Ronald Reagan's former Hollywood colleagues have yet agreed in public that the Governor should move from Sacramento to Washington. To date, the only Beautiful Person who has declared for Nelson Rockefeller is Happy...
WKCR announces that a clergyman is wanted in Fayerweather; a couple wants to get married. This surprises me. Reverend Starr performs the ceremony and says "I pronounce you children of the new age." Shortly after we hear it, we see a candle-light procession approaching. The bride is carrying roses. She hands them to me and I pass them inside. The demonstration peaks for me as I touch the roses--I am stoned on revolutionary zeal. The newlyweds call themselves Mr. and Mrs. Fayerweather...
...Lampoon. He administered a cartoon featuring a gawky three-legged bird laboriously laying an Easter egg as large as itself. Out of the egg hatched a giraffe carrying a banner inscribed "Legalize Abortion." The Lampoon seemed instantly young and vital, and chuckles of observers could be heard in the Starr Book Shop. But suddenly The Harvard Lampoon convulsed into a ball, emitted a single gargantuan sob, and rolled, dead, into a wastepaper basket...
These are also the chief virtues of otherwise uninspiring music, mostly jazz, by Allen Radzow, Pete Salerno, Mike Starr, and Marc Kashnor...
Just ten days of the meditative life with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in Rishikesh proved sufficient for Ringo Starr, 27, and Wife Maureen, who fled back to the more familiar vision of London. "The meditation camp is a bit like summer camp," said the littlest Beatle, who left his three confreres to finish out their month. "We all lived in chalets, and we used to go to the canteen for breakfast, then perhaps walk about a bit and meditate, or bathe. Then it was time for lunch." He and Maureen gave up such transcendental experiences, said Ringo, "because we missed...