Word: superstars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seasons, all situations, all faiths, a beguilingly modest superstar of the church. The professional philosopher read the diplomats of the U.N. a closely reasoned intellectual sermon on the importance of human rights and freedom?and offered in contrast the ghastly memory of Auschwitz in his homeland, where an emotional John Paul had prayed last June. The athlete-outdoorsman kept to a schedule that would have stunned many a man of far fewer years than his 59, and he seemed impervious to the driving rains that fell on his motorcades in Boston and Manhattan. The actor (John Paul toured Poland with...
Harvard's freshman superstar Darlene Beckford added yet another first-place finish to her string of victories that seems unlikely to be threatened in regular season competition. In last Saturday's duel against Brown, Beckford reaffirmed her place among the nation's best runners by shattering the Franklin Park 5000 meter course record...
...catcher, but it seldom gets a grip on a playgoer's feelings. For one thing, the basic tale has been too oft told. It is the familiar show-biz saga of a nobody from nowhere who, through wile and gumption, achieves wealth, fame and glory as a dazzling superstar. In the case of Evita, this tale has been telescoped and occasionally tampered with. Most of the key events happen offstage. They are described in song and dance and recitative, but not dramatically rendered, so the musical lacks the warming pulse of intimacy...
...MARRIAGE of artist and theme with great potential for blasphemous offspring--Monty Python's Flying Circus dive-bombs the New Testament. Sort of like Jesus Christ Superstar to the tune of "I'm a Lumberjack...
That methodical ball control seems to symbolize a more widespread change in the Harvard ranks. Flashy, glorious Larry Brown is out; so is superback Ralph Pollilio. Instead you have hard--nosed Paul Connors and scrappy St. John. These are not superstars. Harvard doesn't have a superstar coming into...