Word: golden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impossible not to sympathize with Mark. Is there anyone incapable of falling in love with Gene Tierney? She was quite possibly the most beautiful woman to grace Hollywood's Golden Age. Her patrician cheekbones were a battlefield where light and shadows made love. Her mouth, a swathe of pomegranate, revealed glimpses of charmingly imperfect teeth. However, it was her eyes that assured her immortality. Drops of black fire, raindrops at night, Gene Tierney's eyes invited annihilation...
...Angeles erupted in our country's worst civil disturbance since the Civil War. With the state deep in recession, Americans began to wonder if the Golden State was down for the count. After a brief respite, the past few months have confirmed that it is not only down for the count, but in need of a paramedic. In October, spectacular wildfires swept up and down southern California. And of course, just two and a half weeks ago, Los Angeles was hit by a devastating 6.6 earthquake...
There is really no reason to feel sorry for California. Without belittling the suffering my fellow Golden Staters have endured over the past few years, feeling sorry for California because of a few natural disasters is like feeling sorry for the Notre Dame football team because someone wrote a few critical books about them...
Most importantly for America, California must rebound because, as it has for the better part of this century, California represents the future of our society. In no other place is visible the fantastic variety of immigrants that now populate the Golden State. Los Angeles alone has more Mexicans than anyplace outside Mexico City, more Koreans than anyplace outside Seoul, more Vietnamese than anyplace outside Ho Chi Minh City, and so on. President Clinton is fond of saying that we must make diversity our friend and not our enemy. California is heeding the call everyday. The success that even the newest...
...admit that the WWF has hit a lull these days, but at its peak nothing compared. Remember the good old days. Forget about baseball's golden years with Dimaggio and Williams, the WWF with the Hulk, Captain Lou and Black Jack Mulligan was supreme...