Word: golden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tale begging to be made into a TV movie: strapping Red Army soldier defects to enemy land to become a hockey star. There he meets a pretty, (very) young Russian tennis tyro with long, golden hair. He goes on to win the Stanley Cup. She goes on to win the U.S. Open. Oops. That's how the telemovie would have played out; but in reality, although Sergei Fedorov, 27, was part of the Stanley Cup-winning Detroit Red Wings, Anna Kournikova, 16, was beaten by Irina Spirlea in the second round of the Open last week, as he watched...
Growing up onscreen, Dorothy was pretty as a Keane picture, vivacious as Betty Boop, and slim--slim as a black actress's chance of movie stardom in the whites-only golden age. Nina Mae McKinney (in Hallelujah) and Fredi Washington (in Imitation of Life) had radiated passion and depth, but by the late '30s Hollywood was consigning blacks to comedy roles and musical numbers...
Unencumbered by the notion that they may be operating out of expropriated property, foreign hotel companies like Club Med (France), Sol Melia (Spain), Golden Tulip (Netherlands) and Delta Hotels (Canada) grabbed prime spots and locked up lucrative hotel-management contracts. Cuba now has some 200 hotels offering 27,000 rooms--more than Puerto Rico and the Bahamas combined. "It's a profound disappointment that we are enjoined from building hotels and a tourism infrastructure there, while our competitors from around the world are allowed to enter and pick the fine sites," laments Marilyn Carlson Nelson, vice chairman of Carlson companies...
...wanted the kids to be proud of me, wanted to increase my nest egg," says Ruth Crosson, 79, of Golden, Colo. She pooled her life savings with money borrowed on an insurance policy and turned over $100,000 to Richard O'Donnell, an insurance agent who had vowed after the death of her husband 10 years earlier that Crosson would be taken care of. Over the years, O'Donnell told Crosson and 17 other victims that he would invest their money in insurance ventures that would pay them dividends of 13% a year. Actually, he was running a Ponzi scheme...
...then, live anthologies were giving way to filmed westerns. Coe worked on Playhouse 90 (his big hit: Days of Wine and Roses), but what Vidal called "a golden age for the dramatist" was over. So was Coe's influence on the televiewer's weekly diet. On Broadway he produced The Miracle Worker and All the Way Home; in the movies he directed A Thousand Clowns. But by his 50th birthday Coe had become a cultural afterthought. He died...