Word: golden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about the succession of blows striking a single American family. So many Kennedys have been cruelly cut off before they had fulfilled themselves--Joe Jr., my Harvard classmate, killed in the war; John and Robert, cherished friends, assassinated; two of Robert's sons dead; now John's son, the golden...
...family played such a sustained, gaudily heartbreaking role in America's fantasy life--the longest-running political soap. Eventually--after the LIFE magazine spreads that spun Old Joe's golden children into myth in the '40s and '50s, after Dallas and the keening over Camelot and after Bobby--at last there set in the disillusioned revisionism: all the dark-side stories about Jack's satyriasis and the loathsome way the brothers treated Marilyn. And the myth developed a twin, an antimyth of cheap fraud, of a tribe of photogenic hustlers...
...prize judges, it did not. Hamilton didn't win a Golden Lion, the Biennale's version of an Oscar. Another young American, in another part of the exposition, did. Doug Aitken's Electric Earth, a slick, multiscreen video, earned him one of the three awards for best international artists. The video, about living "in the absolute present," as Aitken, 31, says, features the throbbing music and quick cuts more in tune with the MTV generation. But at least one visitor appreciated the languorous charms of Hamilton's show. There, in a mound of pink powder, an admirer had scrawled...
DIED. SYLVIA SIDNEY, 88, iconic actress from Hollywood's golden era whose career, spanning seven decades, saw her graduate from a specialty in victim roles to tough-talking, chain-smoking senior citizen; in New York City. In the 1930s, Sidney reigned as one of Paramount's top actresses, starring in several of the era's melodramas-with-a-message. After a hiatus of 17 years, she returned to the movies in 1973 and was nominated for a supporting Oscar for Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams. She won a Golden Globe for her part in the 1985 TV movie An Early Frost...
ARRESTED. PHILIP DURAN, 22, for allegedly providing a handgun to minors, in this case, Columbine High School gunmen Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold; in Golden, Colo. Duran is suspected of introducing the boys to Mark Manes, who sold the teenagers a gun used in the attack...