Word: throbs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pain, as Powell readers know, gets registered no more sharply than pleasure. There is, however, a good deal of subliminal throb. While his wife is writing for the press "on horses and equitation," Powell's career as a largely unread novelist goes nowhere. He works for Warner Bros, near London, hacking out scripts about messenger boys and Victorian philanthropists. None are produced. In 1937, at the suggestion of his agent, Powell journeys to Hollywood. The high point of his stay in Celluloid City is a lunch at the MGM commissary with Scott Fitzgerald, who draws a rough...
...however you deprecate it, is intimate. And on occasion, it can throb with intensity. On December 6, American University came to town, replete with a genuine All-American, a classy entourage and the year's best publicity campaign...
...boxing team, which won five golds in Montreal, would have been potent again this year. In freestyle wrestling and men's gymnastics, the U.S. and Japan would have given the Soviets all they could handle. But now gymnastic heart throb Kurt Thomas is an ABC sports commentator, and the wrestlers are mourning their lost opportunity. Says Don Krone, staff administrator for the A.A.U.'s wrestling division: "It may set our program back two or three years." With the U.S. men's basketball team at home, the gold medal should easily revert to the towering Soviets...
Then they told him he could leave. Suddenly, he walking the streets, alone, toward the Charles. Hunched, his head began to throb, then pound, then implode. Bismarck, and the rest of them, awaited...
...Cincinnati's Loni Anderson, but Muppetdonna Miss Piggy is way up on the charts too, as a kind of ham amid the cheese. Beefcake has sold as well, including young Rock Stars Andy Gibb and Leif Garrett, John Travolta looking disco-feverish and NBC's heart throb Highway Cop Erik Estrada posing with his CHiPs down. Alas, such posters may soon be passé. Manufacturers report a swing away from pictures of individuals and a renewed interest in, of all things, outdoor scenes, mottoes and geometries...