Word: types
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Your article "Begin: 'Beyond the Pale' " was the most vicious, vitriolic, venomous type of "reporting" I have ever read...
Presley wanted to meet FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who loathed long-haired types. "Presley stated," the memo went on, "that his long hair and unusual apparel were merely tools of his trade and afforded him access to and rapport with many people." Jones wrote to his superiors, however, that "Presley's sincerity and good intentions notwithstanding, he is certainly not the type of individual whom the director would wish to meet." Hoover never did agree to see Presley. Instead, he wrote the singer a letter saying that he would "keep in mind your offer to be of assistance...
...become the perpetual adolescent of the film industry--the Mick Jagger of the silver screen. His adamant refusal to grow up and be serious is admittedly rather charmingly contagious and his ebullient, almost Byronic self-absorption displayed in his latest performances is actually an amusing parody of the character type portrayed in Carly Simon's You're So Vain. Beatty was rumored to be the most likely candidate as the real-life model for the song's supremely narcissistic hero. He can't seem to shake off his reputation as an obsessed Casanova, pursuing several women at once while ultimately...
Amiable, scholarly Hanna Gray, 47, looks more like an extension student than the first female president of the University of Chicago. As she settled into office last week, Gray was reminded that back in 1974, while serving as provost of Yale, she had called herself "not the presidential type." Something obviously changed her mind. Said she: "I think it was, actually, being asked...
...know that if the ratings fall they could be gone just like that," says WBBM Station Manager David Nelson, snapping his fingers. Muses Schoumacher about his career: "It's nice now, but how long will it last? I'm glad I'll always know how to type...