Word: golds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gold medal that McMullen received has a profile of Archimedes--the great Greek mathematician who discovered a method of calculating pi--and the quotation "Transire suum pectus mundoque potri" meaning "Rise above oneself and grasp the world," according to a press release from...
Fusion is back, although it never really went away, as the piles of gold lying around Kenny G.'s house would prove if only we could see them. Confused? Here's a brief refresher...
...many jazz musicians found themselves marginalized by rock and soul. Then in 1970 Miles Davis received the first gold record of his life, for Bitches Brew, a sonic eye opener that experimented with electric instruments and rock and funk rhythms--a strange, primal, remarkable album. Soon, however, a whole generation of musicians was squandering its talents on increasingly vapid (though profitable) jazz-rock hybrids that came to be called fusion. Known today as smooth jazz, or as "that crap they play when Regis and Kathie Lee go to commercial," fusion continues to thrive; it even has its own Billboard chart...
...year recession, the deepest since WWII, and its debt-riddled banks fresh out of investment capital, the occasional TGIM shopping day looks a lot like too little, too late. And there's still no guarantee that the Japanese, known as compulsive savers, won't just buy $250 in gold and bury it in the backyard...
DIED. FLORENCE GRIFFITH JOYNER, 38, incandescent American sprinter and winner of three gold medals at the 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics; of undetermined causes; in Mission Viejo, Calif. (see Eulogy, below...