Word: 20s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Boyz -- Wanya Morris, Nate Morris (no relation), Shawn Stockman and Michael McCary -- didn't live in a fantasy world growing up. All are in their early 20s, and all were raised by single mothers of modest means. That helps explain why their music is so empathetic toward the opposite sex. "Women go through a great deal in the day," says Stockman, "and we feel the man should be the one to say, 'Hey, relax, now I'm going to do the things you want to be done...
...happened so quickly. On Tuesday, Aug. 16, owners and players agreed to bring in a mediator: Big Rock Candy Mountain Landis, grandson of commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who had ruled the sport with an iron fist in the '20s and '30s. Young Landis convened the warring parties in the Who-Needs- a-Commissioner's Office in Manhattan and presented each with a baseball cap full of paper slips. For the players, Donald Fehr drew a slip reading "No Salary Arbitration." For the owners, Richard Ravitch pulled out a note saying "This is the only cap you get," thus dispensing...
...well-organized narrative. Music history, cultural comment and such issues as the family's embrace of Nazism are all deftly combined. Spotts told TIME he was so determined to maintain the right proportions that he omitted his biggest scoop: that Hitler sexually abused the young Wieland during the '20s. If he had gone into that scandal, Spotts says, "it would be all anybody wrote about...
...redhead who attracted suitors with remarkable ease, the British-born aristocrat had married and divorced Winston Churchill's son Randolph by the time she was 25. The young Mrs. Churchill spent the rest of her 20s and 30s spinning around the London-Paris-Antibes social orbit, bedding other wealthy and powerful men. They included journalist Edward R. Murrow and Italian mogul Gianni Agnelli, whom Ogden describes -- Jackie Collins-style -- as looking "so luscious" to Harriman when they first met that "her knees trembled." Ultimately, Agnelli, a lothario, refused to marry her, which hurt Harriman deeply...
Script doctors have been in demand since the late '20s, when Hollywood made pictures talk. The industry still feeds on lore about how some films' most indelible scenes -- say, the final words of A Star Is Born ("Mrs. Norman Maine") or Casablanca ("Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship") -- were the last-minute inspirations of uncredited writers or producers. Or about how David O. Selznick, in the middle of making Gone With the Wind, closed down production and asked writer Ben Hecht to save the picture. Hecht cobbled a few scenes, urged Selznick to adhere more...