Word: worship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never married or had a home. He fell in love three times (once with Singer Jenny Lind), but the affairs were little more than heroine worship. Like his invention The Fir Tree, which was disappointed at every stage of its growth, Hans could never recognize happiness until it had evaporated...
...visionary Frenchman who proved he also could fight: the Marquis de Lafayette. On the fringe of the peaceful scene stood St. John's Church, the small nave once again echoing with the Christmas carols as it has since John Quincy Adams used to walk over to worship...
Anthropologists say that primitive people often eat the gods they worship. The cannibals in question are the new generation of studio heads, many of whom are ex-agents. They are light-years away from the megalomaniac visionaries of yesteryear like Samuel Goldwyn and Irving Thalberg. The current studio bosses' philosophy seems to be: if it sold 30 years ago, it must sell now. Even the greatest of Hollywood's camp creations is not to be spared. For the past two months, ads have been splashed throughout the press proclaiming that King Kong will love and die again...
...revival of the 1944 work "magnificent." After offering praise to Stapleton and Cast Members Rip Torn, Pamela Payton-Wright and Paul Rudd, Tennessee expressed some surprise at Menagerie's longevity. "They teach it in college now, and everybody approaches it as though it were a place of worship," he observed. "Frankly, I fall asleep at times...
...from Rome to Gstaad. He teaches Grimes, the back slid Protestant moralist, how to increase and enjoy his money. But just as Graham Greene knew, Shaw is aware that the piper must always be paid, that his heroes must eventually return home to separate fates. Although they used to worship at entirely different literary shrines (Hemingway on the one hand, Evelyn Waugh on the other), Shaw and Greene are bonded in contemporary let ters by their ability to create a bestseller with moral resonance. "Given half the chance," says this delightful romp, "every man becomes a hero." Nightwork...