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Word: autographed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Monday afternoon Chapman spotted Lennon and asked him to autograph an album. Lennon hastily scribbled his name and climbed into a waiting car to take him to a recording studio. Did Chapman feel slighted by Lennon? Possibly. But the night before he had suddenly checked out of the Y and moved into the cushier Sheraton Center hotel and bought himself a big meal. It was as if he were rewarding himself in advance for some proud accomplishment. Now on Monday, only hours after getting Lennon's autograph, Chapman was waiting again, this time in the shadows of the entryway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Last Day in the Life | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...talk for seven minutes, a near eternity by TV standards, and Hartman asks about the wounded Arab students. A regrettable incident, Begin replies. During a commercial break, Hartman escorts Begin out and jovially says goodbye to his phalanx of security men, several of whom ask for Hartman's autograph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Life Begins at 3:45 A.M. | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

...trips; Country Star Willie Nelson has a coveted signed edition. Straight through the heartland of America, truck drivers pass up the centerfold magazines at diesel stops to buy a copy of his latest paperback; thousands of folks from Santa Fe, N. Mex., to Savannah, Ga., line up for his autograph on his frequent tours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Homer of the Oater | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

Grand prize, the extravagantly overpriced 25th Anniversary Limited Edition Elvis Aron Presley, an 8-record set containing 65 unreleased performances, 8 full-color Elvis Picture sleeves, a 20-page picture booklet and an Authentic Autograph imbedded in each of the 8 records, goes to Kevin P. Whaley, surely the snappiest wit ever to cross the University of Wisconsin campus. The truth, and our winning entry, as revealed by Whaley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sure enough, somebody won it... | 11/18/1980 | See Source »

...reasoning, he thrives on the perks that accompany his celebrity but wants adulation only from a distance. His fame chokes him; he depicts his claustrophobia with several wide-angled tracking shots that subtly distort the faces of his fans until all seem ugly and deformed. "Just write," says an autograph seeker, "'To Phyllis Bernstein, you unfaithful lying bitch...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Lost in Place | 10/11/1980 | See Source »

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