Word: coasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...meanwhile, Dateline, the uncannily successful magazine show anchored by Jane Pauley and Stone Phillips, keeps spreading like kudzu into new prime-time real estate. The program began in 1992 and is now seen four times a week. Next fall it will probably expand to five, and West Coast president Don Ohlmeyer acknowledges that his ultimate goal is a full slate of Dateline, seven nights a week...
Levine, a onetime martial-arts student, imported Krav Maga to the West Coast in 1981, following a stint in Israel, where he learned from grand master Imi Lichtenfeld, the late creator of Krav Maga. Back home, Levine began teaching the system to a handful of Los Angeles students while he attended law school. When he opened his training center last year, he had an instant hit on his hands. Membership has shot past 1,000, and another branch is planned...
...Harvard has been tough to beat since it returned from its spring break trip to the West Coast. The Crimson is on a seven-game winning streak, has won 15 of its last 18 games and was 17-7 in April...
...Patrick Cox white loafers and forces her to spend the winter months in the Underworld of Las Vegas before being released to Beverly Hills for Contempo Casuals' spring sales. The relationship between script and clothing was murky, for Monoyudis's palette owed more to 1988 Miami than the West Coast. The two halves of Persephone's wardrobe, from her winter internment in Las Vegas and her springtime rebirth in Los Angeles, were nearly identical in their erratic eclecticism...
These Hollywood-style celebrations seem meaningless even to East Coast Jews, so it's no wonder Israelis found them difficult to stomach. More than a celebration, they seem to be a cultural imposition of American ideals--of celebrity and ostentatiousness--upon the rough-hewn world of the sabra (native Israeli). Many American Jews like to play down the differences between themselves and Israelis, but the New York intellectual will never be of the same mind as the organic kibbutznik. Philip Roth, this year's recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, makes exactly this point in Operation Shylock, in which...