Word: superstar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...college basketball season has not been the year of the superstar: there is no Jerry Lucas, Oscar Robertson, Wilt Chamberlain or Elgin Baylor. But this has been the year of the team--and the best three in the country will collide in Louisville, Ky., this weekend for the NCAA championship...
...tall, green-eyed, 29-year-old Irishman with an overflow of dark blond hair, O'Toole is at least prepared for his prepackaged stardom. Unlike, say, Warren Beatty-who had never been seen in anything more exacting than a high school football game before being hailed as a superstar-Peter O'Toole was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and is a veteran of both the Bristol Old Vic and the Shakespeare company at Stratford on Avon. Critics have variously cited his "huge resources" and "sinewy vitality," his capacity to deliver lines so that they "sing...
Like all other Giants, the Latins play in the shadow of Willie Mays, 31, still the superstar and the delight of the fans with his freewheeling base running, back-to-the-ball basket catches and powerful...
...sourest chords in the grapefruit league were being struck by sometime Yankee Superstar Roger Moris, 27, who had yet to hit his first homer of the spring. After months of bouncing profitably around the banquet circuit, complaining about the food, and embarrassing his hosts with curt, monosyllabic speeches, Maris last week: dismissed young autograph seekers by signing programs with an X, announced a new policy of "no interview" to sportswriters, cursed out and threatened to slug U.P.I. Columnist Oscar Fraley, refused to pose for a photograph with Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby. Said TV's longtime "Voice...
...oxygen mask as a normal woman might cuddle a newborn babe, she dimples in maidenly dither at her gigolo's advances, she proceeds a moment later with hard-nosed efficiency to collect what she has paid for. She is a mascaraed monument to the era of the superstar, a veritable muse of publicity...