Word: heyday
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...with Columbia Pictures and collector of highly stylized receivers of the '30s, '40s and '50s, has produced the nostalgic sleeper of the season. The photographs glow with a warmth and color that make one forget how often these little bijoux of popular culture were on the fritz during the heyday of amplitude modulation...
...that's what video-age diplomacy has become: summits between co-stars in the global village. This week Reagan and Gorbachev will share the screen for the third time, matching the pace set by Nixon and Brezhnev during the heyday of detente and working toward a Moscow meeting next year that would set a new world record for summitry. Who would have thought it of these two very, very different...
...heyday, the program sent more booksacross the Atlantic than any library could use."In the early years, everybody got what theywanted, and threw away what they didn't need,"said Chris Filstrup, chief of the Library ofCongress' overseas operations...
America's yachting heyday was in the early 20th century, when wealthy industrialists competed in creating elaborate waterborne palaces. Over the years, buying, building and chartering of yachts remained small and select, and in the late '70s, business hit bottom. Today the number of American-owned jumbos, over 100 ft. from stem to stern, is increasing from 80 in 1986 to 129, with the launch of 49 new yachts now under construction. More remarkable is that 33 of these yachts will be products of U.S. yards, rather than foreign competitors. Jumbo yachts sport a hefty price tag, ranging from...
Stand-up comedy has been a staple of American entertainment since the heyday of the Borscht Belt. But the current boom is something new. TV has clearly played a major role, giving comedians national exposure and drawing on them for starring roles in sitcoms and Saturday Night Live. The intimacy between comic and audience, moreover, may be especially appealing in an age of high-tech movies and supersize rock concerts. Or it may simply be that the instant gratification of one-liners is perfectly suited to the short attention span of the TV-educated '80s audience...