Word: heyday
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Europeans had been planning the pipeline deal since the heyday of detonate in the early 1970's When they finally signed the contracts with the Soviets last Spring after years of negotiations, it seemed obvious the allies would not reverse their decision. At the Versailles summit conference of Western leaders in June, Reagan himself assured the Europeans he would not block the pipeline--only to shock them a week later by announcing the sanctions...
...never lacked for critics eager to consign him to the minors. His career began during the heyday of brilliant U.S. Jewish writing. Saul Bellow, J.D. Salinger, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, among others, were the critics' darlings. A sensitive outsider from the sticks did not measure up to prevailing standards. In Commentary, Norman Podhoretz complained, "His short stories ... strike me as all windup and no delivery." Bruised by appraisals like this, Updike eventually turned his hurt feelings to good use: "Out of that unease, I created Henry Bech to show that I was really a Jewish writer also...
...show's host is "King" Kaiser (Joseph Bologna), a brash, somewhat arrogant comedian with an entourage of aggressively obsequious writers and producers. Any resemblance to Sid Caesar and Your Show of Shows is, of course, purely intentional, and in many other ways the film strives to capture the innocent heyday of live TV. My Favorite Year succeeds in this respect, but except for O'Toole's manic star turn, remains at heart a tepid movie...
...known in its gilded heyday as the train of kings. It also transported in regal splendor diplomats, divas and duchesses, the beau monde and the demimonde, maharajahs, moguls and con men, courtesans, couriers, private eyes and spies. Thundering across empires to the edge of Asia, the Orient Express was the most celebrated train in history. It retired ignobly in May 1977, aged 94, a shrunken outcast of the hurry-up age. Then, last May, it rose again in all its pristine opulence as a regularly scheduled year-round train luxe, plying between London and Venice. The once and future train...
MacNeil did better than arrive at the right place at the right time; during his heyday in the 1960s, he was literally everywhere at the right time. He was in the Congo in 1960 during that country's bloody fight for independence. Subbing for a colleague, he was in Berlin the night East Germany began building the wall. He spent the Cuban missile crisis in Havana, residing in a government prison. Once again on substitute duty, he arrived in Dallas in November 1963 and later covered the assassination of John F. Kennedy. He covered the massive civil rights demonstrations...