Word: succession
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Celebrities, sometimes deliberately, sometimes unwittingly, encourage overinvolvement by their fans. A sort of perverse symbiosis exists between star and votary. Many celebrities lack sturdy egos and are looking for unqualified adoration. Others think that their most emotional and devoted fans are integral to their success and must be cultivated. Dietz deplores the Hollywood routine of answering fan mail. And he is especially critical of the practice of sending out autographed publicity photos: "Sometimes mentally ill recipients interpret the signed photograph as a personal communication confirming, for example, that they are about to be married...
...only child of an auto-parts salesman-farmer and an elementary school teacher in Linden, Texas ("Drive 20 miles to The Crossroads or, in the other direction, to Uncertain") -- Henley had a bedrock upbringing that permitted his musical excursions but gave him something to kick out against. When success with the Eagles hit fast and hard, he lived his share of the Los Angeles high life and paid a big price. In 1980 he found himself pickled in the press when he was given two years' probation for drug possession and fined for contributing to the delinquency of a minor...
...Socialists' inward-looking platform is not workable in an era when Japan's economic success is thrusting it into the international community...
...THAT success has been furthered by Japan's stubborn refusal to open its shores to foreign goods. This economic policy has been the most noticeable aspect of Japan's world view, but it has been accompanied by two other significant decisions--a refusal to spend much on foreign aid and a shying away from any military build...
...Sandinista National Liberation Front (F.S.L.N.), the misery that marked life for most of the country under Somoza is, if anything, worse. The red and black anniversary valentines that bedeck roadside billboards aptly reflect what has always been the regime's strong suit: romantic rhetoric, not reality. The sole success of the F.S.L.N. is holding on to power, despite an eight-year war by the U.S. and its contra rent-an-army. Says Alfredo Cesar, a former contra director and now an opposition political leader in Managua: "The Sandinistas are good fighters. But they never made the transition from being guerrillas...