Word: golden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then, shows that were written for Merman, Rosalind Russell and the other great ladies should be brought out of mothballs. One longs to see Prince in Mame, in Gypsy, in Annie Get Your Gun. For her, Guys and Dolls is probably just the first milestone on a voyage of Golden Age rediscovery...
...growth failed to lift all boats as advertised: the rich got bigger yachts, the middle class foundered, and many of the poor went under. The task for the 1990s will be to move beyond the excesses and inequities of the debt decade rather than strive to return to a Golden Age that never existed...
...research project has also cut out some much loved paintings, once considered essential masterpieces, milestones in his art, like Berlin's Man with the Golden Helmet. This has caused tremendous indignation in some quarters -- a fuss comparable to the moment when Bernard Berenson made his name as an enfant terrible by downgrading half the supposed canon of Lorenzo Lotto nearly 100 years...
...most indelible (if ambiguous) images. Yet she passed the last 13 years of her life as a virtual recluse -- cranky, litigious and, considering the length and strength of her celebrity, by no means wealthy. She was, by common critical consent, one of the great stars of the movies' Golden Age. But she was never wildly popular with the mass audience and was once dubbed box-office "poison" in an exhibitors' poll...
...mostly the show is pretentious and annoying. TV sitcoms are rarely models of subtlety, but few are acted and directed with such in-your-face coarseness. Candice Bergen, a two-time Emmy winner (in years when the Golden Girls were apparently snoozing), has anything but a light comic touch. Listening to her labored, overemphatic line readings is like watching someone slog through a swamp in combat boots. Faith Ford, as dippy anchorwoman Corky Sherwood-Forrest (a character married off just to create a funny name!), shrieks her way through scenes as if she were trying to be heard above...