Word: heros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...potent combination of Hassan's missteps and Hussein's obsession with his legacy put Abdullah in charge. In 1992, as the King recuperated from his first bout with cancer, he returned home ready to abdicate. Buoyed by a hero's welcome and upset by a slanderous whispering campaign against his American-born wife Queen Noor, for which he held Hassan's court responsible, he changed his mind...
Strange that something so alive now could have begun in a museum. In late 1997, Lauryn Hill was visiting Detroit to produce a song that she wrote for her childhood hero, Aretha Franklin. On the way to the airport, she stopped at the Motown Museum. The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, the Jackson 5--these were the performers she was reared on. She could picture their 45s scattered across her bed. "It was incredible to me and really inspiring," says Hill. Now she was ready to push forward on her own solo album...
...points a finger at Chili Palmer, pulls a pretend trigger and growls, "Bang, you dead. But you don't know when, do you?" Nah, but Chili stays cool. Always. The hero of Get Shorty, once a loan shark, now a film producer, here gets involved in the pop-music biz, a field of endeavor that lacks the dignity of finance but is rich in crooks, babes and crooked babes. The balderdash that follows is nonsense of the highest quality. It proves both to scolds who think that funk, grunge and rap and the rest are rhythmic vomiting, and to those...
...return of Stanley Cup hero Mark Messier to Madison Square Garden provided an interesting subtext. Messier was loudly cheered by the New York fans, many of whom wore Rangers jerseys with his name on them...
...47th annual tournament for Boston collegiate hockey bragging rights, history appeared to repeat itself against Northeastern (9-13-3, 4-10-2 Hockey East) with another very late goal by a Crimson defenseman to tie the score. Unlike last year's opening game, however, the opposition provided the ultimate hero in freshman forward Brian Cummings, who scored the game-winner in a 4-3 Northeastern victory over Harvard (8-10-1, 3-9-1 ECAC...