Super-Star (1964); You & Your Passport Photo
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Tue Sep 11 08:08:12 UTC 2001
SUPER-STAR
As I posted before, the OED has 1926 and then 1969. Andy Warhol claims to have coined it, but I traced that to 1966.
From CLYDE (A PLAYBOY/ESQUIRE-type publication in the 1960s), April 1964, pg. 36:
_HOCKEY'S_
_NEWEST_
_SUPER-STAR_
by Stan Fischler
(Bobby Hull...See also my work on "supermodel" in the old archives--ed.)
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WHEN YOU LOOK LIKE YOUR PASSPORT PHOTO, IT'S TIME TO COME HOME
The title of a book by the late Erma Bombeck.
However, the conception that you don't look like your horrible passport photo is not new.
From a cartoon in PIC, December 1948, pg. 107, col. 1:
(Husband and wife are in chairs on the deck of a ship. The husband looks terrible, and the wife says...--ed.)
"You're beginning to look like your passport photo."
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