Word: idolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from his ability to create convincing lavishness, but from his amazing sense of detail. Few directors excel him at dressing sets; from, palaces to tents, every human habitation looks as though people had lived there for years. In the temple courtyard, hawkers sell miniatures of the 90-foot high idol within, which the audience hasn't even seen yet. The Philistine decor combines Minoan and Canaanite motifs, an archaeological accuracy that surely means little to the public, but much to DeMille...
...major success of the antibandit drive to date has been the capture of the most celebrated bandit of them all, Graziano Mesina, 26. The darkly handsome Mesina, an idol to many Sardinian women and youth, surrendered without a fight last month when stopped at a police roadblock. But thousands of his cohorts have managed to elude their pursuers and blithely continue to collect their ransoms. Feeding the specter of fear, they have sent their kidnap victims back home with breathless accounts of their cruelty. "They talked in an atmosphere of bestial excitement," reported wealthy Cattleman Giovanni Campus, 32, whose family...
...smack of sin. The group that won the $25 prize as the best oldtime band, the Blue Ridge Boys of Winston-Salem, N.C., learned all of their music "from relatives" and are duly modest about their accomplishments: asked why he though the band had won, Banjoist Paul Idol replied Well, we all started on a tune exactly at the same time, and we stopped exactly at the same time...
...philosophical A Teenager's Romance. When his fortune is good in Travelin' Man or bad in Poor Little Fool, when he's successful in Be Bop or luckless in Stood Up, Rick's archetypal voice reveals no emotion --just the casual sneer of his autobiographical masterpiece, Teenage Idol...
...vacationing tykes broke over the right field barricade and raced across the outfield to Yaz in left. The three shook hands all around and chatted for a moment, before the Fenway cops menaced. A few minutes later, two left field youths vaulted their barricade to meet the understanding idol. Then there was another pair from right, greeting Joe LaHoud (welcoming the rookie to Fenway no doubt), shaking with Reggie Smith (who gave them a friendly pat with his glove) and then approaching the altar in front of the Green Monster...