Word: halo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gilded chair with the ridiculous plugged-in halo was enough to make Walter Cronkite visibly uncomfortable. And with good reason. In Washington last week some 300 diners had come not to honor but to baste him. America's favorite former anchorman had agreed to the $1,000-a-plate roast to raise funds for the newly created Cronkite Regents Chair in Communication at the University of Texas, Austin. Trouble was that try as they might, such luminaries as Dick Cavett, CBS's Andy Rooney and Beverly Sills could barely generate enough heat to toast, much less broil, kindly Uncle Walter...
Some of those who attended shelled out $5000 for a special "angel plate," for which they received a golden angel complete with rhinestone halo and crimson "H" emblazoned on its chest...
...does the exact opposite, attempting to emotionally shield people from the problem while taking credit for solving it. And while a starving African might not care who paid his food bill, for a performers to entice money out of rabid fans and then allow the media to place a halo over has head nicely fits the definition of a rock 'n' roll slimeball...
...room in the Castle Harbor hotel (references required) among people who conceivably could have been dressed for the raj. One of the blonder and fairer of us attracted the glance of a Italian in a dark linen suit, who was taking effete puffs from a slender cigarette, sending a halo of smoke around his coiffed head. Actually, he was only a hotel official on break, but he handed us some nightclub passes, which was all that really mattered...
...years. Dressed in white, standing next to hundreds of almost darkened fans, she stands up in the stands as Hobbs waits for the ball after two strikes. In this make-it-or-break-it moment, he notices Close, immersed in sunlight that makes her white hat look like a halo. Although people don't usually attend games dressed completely in white, nor would it seem likely that Hobbs would notice her alone among thousands of fans, the image is somehow more enchanting than trite...