Word: heydays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though the Justice Department found no cause for action against him, the lingering memory kept Coelho from an official role in the Administration. But he is much admired by several of Clinton's younger aides, including senior adviser George Stephanopoulos, who were House staff members during Coelho's congressional heyday as adroit fund raiser and campaign tactician. He has served as an informal adviser for more than a year. Coelho's stock at the White House rose higher when Leon Panetta became chief of staff. They had once been twin stars of the California House delegation -- Panetta the policy wonk...
Caruso, meanwhile, was probably the highest-paid performer in the world during his heyday from 1903 to his death in 1921. Beginning in 1914, when the average weekly salary in the U.S. was about $12, Caruso was paid at least $2,500 (almost $37,000 in today's dollars) for each appearance at the Metropolitan Opera; today the Met's top fee is only $12,000. In Central and South America, where he was a god, Caruso received as much as $15,000 for a single engagement, payable in gold. His appearances in two silent movies in 1918, My Cousin...
...definition literally. Broadway box office is dominated by maximalist musicals known to cynics as the helicopter show (Miss Saigon), the chandelier show (The Phantom of the Opera), the barricades show (Les Miserables) and the zoo story (Cats). But occasionally on Broadway, and incessantly off it, this is also a heyday of the one-person show...
Indeed, just five years after the fateful date passed, the Berlin wall was down and the Soviet Union had collapsed. Gone were the Staasi, the KGB and the secret police forces of every other fallen communist regime, which in their heyday terrorized ordinary civilians with the knowledge that their words and actions were being watched. Across the East Bloc and around the world, people breathed easier at the spread of freedom and the demise of Big Brother...
Such inconsistency has been a trademark of the team all season: one night it forgets how to play the game and the next it looks like the Celtics in their heyday...