Word: heard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kennedy Jr. was swaddled in headlines, the first baby ever born to a President-elect. It was news when he came out of the incubator, when he first went on formula, when he got a haircut or lost a tooth. The family never called him John-John; a reporter heard his father chasing after the fleeing toddler, shouting "John, John," and thought it was a pet name. And so it became our name for him, not theirs, which was fitting, since like the rest of the family, he has always been partly a myth of our own making, a mirror...
...that wasn't easy on anybody. He and Berman, the magazine's president, had lurid battles about its direction; and Kennedy's violent temper would break loose; sometimes he would chase Berman down the hall screaming. One time they locked themselves in Kennedy's office. Staff members heard banging sounds. When Berman emerged, one of his shirt sleeves was missing...
...heard anything previously about his interest in such matters. I learned later that he also headed Reaching Up, an organization dedicated to helping hospital orderlies, nursing aides and others. He was genuinely concerned about the young, the disabled and the homeless. His instinct was to do good by stealth, lest people think he was doing good for publicity...
...night that John Kennedy died, a friend took Robert Kennedy to his bedroom. "God, it's so awful," Robert said. "Everything was really beginning to run so well." He seemed under control. The friend closed the door, then heard Bob break down...
...that Fatboy Slim songs can be heard every-where--in movie trailers, in commercials--the invasion of America by the big beat sound seems complete, even if record companies still insist on referring to it as "electronica." It would have been easy for its inventors to once again mix up rock sounds and dance beats and recreate their success. The Chemical Brothers' (a.k.a. Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons) third full album, however, moves away from the through-the-roof lager madness of Dig Your Own Hole to a more house-based sound, one that's perhaps less accessible than their...