Word: golden
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Distinctions Golden Globe, Most Swimming and debating Promising Newcomer, '59 trophies
...chairman Burton think that whenever White House people discuss that golden Asian connection to the Clinton-Gore campaign, they lapse into Pidgin English, reminiscent of the language that G.I.s in Korea employed to palaver with shoeshine boys and barmaids? Maybe committee investigators were told to keep their eyes out for a tape on which Bruce Lindsey says to Maria Hsia, a fund raiser prosecutors considered generous to a fault, "Listen, missy, you tell Charlie Trie boss needs money chop-chop...
...cold feet? Because in the past four years, the California G.O.P. has undergone something of a revolution. In 1994, conventional wisdom in the Golden State held that Latinos didn't vote and that taking on immigrants, especially Latino immigrants, was a political gold mine. Voters passed Proposition 187, which sought to cut off illegal aliens' benefits. Governor Pete Wilson won re-election with ads showing grainy figures scurrying across the southern border, and some suspected that he could ride the issue all the way to the White House...
...With the Golden Arm (1955) Sinatra was proud of this one, in which he plays heroin addict Frankie Machine, because it was one of Hollywood's first looks at drug addiction. Now a bit dated, it still has harrowing moments...
...that he was supposed to be somewhere else in the world. He would pass beggars in the shadowy streets of Rangoon on his way to the movies, where a glamorous, faraway place filled the screen every day. William Holden was up there, along with Gregory Peck and Kim Novak, golden with the light of the West...