Word: golds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feminist sexuality. Although to her it's a joke, Madonna's "Boy Toy" belt buckle offends almost everyone except the Wanna Be's. Those who snoozed through the '50s the first time around are mystified. Some feminists clearly feel that Madonna's self-parody as an eye-batting gold digger, notably in her song Material Girl, is a joke too damaging to laugh at. Somebody has said that her high, thin voice, which is merely adequate for her energetic but not very demanding dance-pop songs, sounds like "Minnie Mouse on helium." Other detractors suggest that she is almost entirely...
...numbers, as they say, are spectacular. Her first album, a batch of dance tunes called simply Madonna, started slowly nearly two years ago, but now, at 2.8 million copies sold in the U.S., is closing in on triple platinum (in record-business jargon, 500,000 albums sold is gold, and 1 million is platinum). Her second, Like a Virgin, which includes five of her own songs, has gone quadruple platinum at 4.5 million copies in domestic sales, with 2.5 million more worldwide. Her singles have found 6.3 million buyers in the U.S. (or the same buyer 6.3 million times, exasperated...
Even bad Shakespeare contains more nuggets of literary gold than half the premieres of a normal Broadway season Kilty started off well in taking a chainsaw to Shakespeare's text: the lopped off lines are not missed. He set the play in interwar England, the land of tea, croquet, and highly mannered living. But the questionable decisions start coming hard and fast...
...even if Jim McKay takes Owens's success to be the lesson of the whole affair, I don't think his gold medals mattered much. Although Owens was probably well aware of the irony as he stood on the medal stand, I'd like to think that he took pleasure in his mere participation at the Games. I'd like to think that he didn't see his medals is a justified attempt to rub the Nazis' roses in the dirt, but as an attempt to show that he and other athletes were above politics...
...Mormons teach that God and Jesus Christ directly commissioned Smith to disseminate divine scriptures, inscribed on plates of gold that had been buried by ancient Israelites who had migrated to America. According to Smith's 1838 account of the momentous event, the angel Moroni showed him the site outside Palmyra where the plates were hidden. Harris is one of the Mormon Church's "Three Witnesses," who attest that they too saw the plates, so his truthfulness is also a matter of faith. The Harris letter, dated seven months after the publication of the Book of Mormon, recounts what he says...