Word: cools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Leave it to Bill Clinton to find the special language of his audience. "Welcome to the White House on a cool, overcast day, about 60[degrees]," he greeted radio and TV meteorologists brought in for briefings on global warming last week. He said he was auditioning for his retirement job and thought he was qualified for theirs: "I'm used to delivering bad news." They laughed, but Clinton is worried that he's about to unleash a tornado of bad news that no one will find funny. In the next few weeks, he must decide the U.S. position...
...Republicans: steaks became (in my mind) politicized. And then, on the very last day of my misspent years in graduate school, my role model and hero Arnie Goldman said, "School's out--what do you say, let's go to Murray's," and so it was cool. We put on our corduroy sportscoats with the leather elbow patches and had dinner, and he ordered us martinis, and the gin made me as witty as Robert Benchley. We swapped timeless repartee for a couple hours and ate liberal Democratic steaks and felt the glow of scholarly brotherhood...
...result, black filmmakers say, Hollywood is often cool to film concepts that don't include pimps, drive-bys, sexual antics or, preferably, all three. Debbie Allen, producer of Amistad, a film about a real-life 19th century slave revolt, spent several years looking for backers before Spielberg signed on to direct it (the film will be out in December). Kasi Lemmons, writer-director of Eve's Bayou--which deals with family secrets, sisterly friendship and voodoo--had a similar experience. "We were turned down by everyone," says Lemmons. "They all said they loved the script, and then they...
Miles Davis will forever be known for his fearless inventiveness. Unlike most of his contemporaries, he never stopped finding new approaches to the music he played. Coming out of the '60s with immortal recordings like Kind of Blue and The Birth of the Cool behind him, Miles was looking in a new direction. Reciprocating the admiration shown for him by such popular artists as Jimi Hendrix and Sly and the Family Stone, Miles pushed his band into new, totally uncharted territory. To some degree, the map of the journey was set by Bitches Brew, Miles' controversial electric jazz album...
...other words, the flight attendants who sued get vindication, but no cash; the Rosenblatts score a cool $46 million...