Word: trouper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Midler is a trouper pleased to have joined the big smooth circus. But she is careful to keep stardom in perspective. She calls Beverly Hills a "happy experience. Plus they gave me the underwear my character wore. The furniture was what really slayed me, but I didn't get that. But I did get the bras." Nor does she make many distinctions among her three recent hits: "Was it Outrageous Ruthless People in Beverly Hills? The films have certainly indicated a direction to stay in. The whole package is a surprise: to be a box-office success hand in hand...
...possible that the old trouper had gone where we don't need roads, just for a moment during his press conference, and found a $37,000 house there...
...Ever the trouper, Ronald Reagan is back on the campaign trail this fall, urging voters to choose Republicans in November's Senate races lest his conservative revolution be stymied by a Democratic majority. "I can't have my hands tied by a totally hostile Congress," Reagan has told audiences in California, Colorado, Louisiana and Alabama...
...heroine to rig a raffle so that she can win the man she loves, Rehnquist stepped forward and, with much judicial flourish, presented a large bowl filled with extra tickets. The Justice, who reappeared for a solo curtain call (Oyez! Oyez!), turned out to be a real trouper. Reports Savoyards' Nancy Low: "He offered to bring his own costume...
...medley of show tunes. Fast-footed Hinton Battle strutted his stuff from the Broadway musical The Tap Dance Kid, and Rockers Cyndi Lauper and Rod Stewart teamed up to sing a pounding version of Time After Time. The audience was even treated to a message from Old Trouper Ronald Reagan, whose ties to Tinseltown remain close and fond...