Word: 53rd
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...raffish image: hirsute hippie freak; countercultural sire of prototypical Valley Girl Moon Unit Zappa and her siblings Dweezil, Ahmet and Diva; opinionated crank ("AIDS is a CIA plot"); and First Amendment scourge of Tipper Gore. With his death from prostate cancer, a few days short of his 53rd birthday, it may now be easier to appreciate an often overlooked fact about Francis Vincent Zappa: he was the most protean and adventurous American composer of his generation...
...cavernous auditorium, a bigger audience (about 400 seats, nearly double the capacity of his old NBC studio) and a whole new neighborhood for his snoopy cameras to roam around in. "You can leave the stage, go down three or four steps, open the door, and you're right on 53rd Street," says Letterman. "I can scream every night at Miss Saigon. I can literally holler at her. I can make enough noise on our sidewalk to disrupt their show every night...
...these public triumphs are nothing compared with what he achieved on Nov. 19 of this year: Turner, alive and well, stabilized by medication and psychiatric counseling, beloved by Jane Fonda, celebrated his 53rd birthday. Fifty-three was the age at which Turner's father shot himself through the head with a .38-cal. pistol, and it was an age that many people who know Turner did not expect him to reach. While most Americans think of Turner as the loud cheerleader of the Braves, the corporate Don Quixote who went after CBS or the peace-loving impresario of the Goodwill...
When you're fiftysomething, you're entitled to a little extravagance. But few birthday parties could match the spectacle staged by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for his 53rd last month. Saddam invited Cabinet members, prominent government officials and diplomats to his home village of Tikrit for lavish festivities that included a two-hour parade and banners proclaiming YOUR CANDLES, SADDAM, ARE THE TORCHES FOR ALL THE ARABS...
...Haiti's most recent strongman was reminiscent of Jean-Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier's ignominious departure in 1986. On the morning of his 53rd birthday, after seven days of protests and a general strike, Lieut. General Prosper Avril and his family were driven to the airport on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince last week, placed aboard a U.S. Air Force C-141 StarLifter and flown into refuge in the U.S. Thus ended the turbulent 18-month rule of Haiti's fourth leader in four years...