Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...year 1999 was a big one for polls here at TIME.com. We shouldn't have been surprised. Pre-millennial fever seemed to add an extra edge to all the passions that motivate people to express themselves - political tension, national pride, economic disparity, religious fervor - and our polls were chum in the water for those with an overwhelming need to make themselves heard. Make themselves heard they did, turning out in record numbers for our polls, periodically flooding our tiny newsroom with ravenous vote-generating robots, angry e-mails and even threats of eternal damnation. The polls that touched a nerve...
...decide to avoid sure humiliation in your roommate's eyes by programming "Beat It" and "Ooh Child" out and listening to only the Spanish songs, you may be able to enjoy a few of the easy beats as you close your eyes and dream of old jazz clubs and big bands. But somehow Nascimento's tribute to the era still sounds like a cheap imitation, complete with anachronistic R&B beats and some off-key harmonies. It's hard to believe he won a Grammy in 1997 for Best World Music Album. "Crooner" might work for a millennium party...
While the teams aren't big, they aren't cupcakes, either. All enter with winning records against strong competition...
...Happiness has always been the secret of the blues. "What made the real blues singers so great," said blues great Big Joe Williams, "is that they were able to state all the problems they had; but at the same time, they were standing outside of them and could look at them. And in that way, they had them beat. Many young singers today are trying to get inside the blues, forgetting that those older singers used the blues to get outside their troubles...
...big, dead bear, he said. An old bear. It was Hsing-Hsing's time...