Word: heydays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mingxia is a money tree for her family." Still, that Olympic bonus is less than a fifth of what the Soviet Union offered athletes for gold at Seoul -- and about one-third of 1% of what American gymnast Mary Lou Retton earned from capitalist sources after her Olympic heyday...
What the Broadway musical most needs, short of stuffing the entire theatergoing public into a time machine headed backward, is to make peace with rock music. When the form had its heyday, its songs were the pop mainstream. Now there is no pop mainstream -- music, like the radio that delivers it, has become demographically fragmented -- but rock is the nearest equivalent. So long as Broadway keeps spurning that propulsive sound in favor of Tin Pan Alley bygones and pseudo operettas, it confines its appeal to the elderly of all ages...
Once upon a time, in the heyday of junk bonds and booming real estate markets, big money developers sank fortunes into gleaming urban skyscrapers that stood as proud tributes to an age of avarice. Today a dismal economy has left many of these office towers half full and their developers slumping toward insolvency. Chief among them is Olympia & York, which made a grim return engagement in bankruptcy court last week, this time in Britain. The Canadian real estate giant sought protection from creditors of its London Canary Wharf project. No expense had been spared in this spectacular 71-acre building...
According to Ellis. The heyday of Harvard influence in Washington was the presidency of John F. Kennedy '40 during the Kennedy era, the fabled Cambridge-Washington shuttle became famous for transporting Harvard's ideas to the halls of Congress and the White House...
...this is the year when long-battered Broadway takes heart again, the show that symbolizes and crystallizes its comeback is Frank Loesser's funny valentine to Gotham. In 1950, when the musical form was still in its heyday, Guys and Dolls set the town on its ear. Critic John McClain of the New York Journal-American said the show might be just as good as Oklahoma! or South Pacific, but more important, he added, "This is the medium of our town -- not the tall corn or the waving palms." In 1992 its second coming was even more ballyhooed, from...