Word: heydays
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Michael Milken may have lost his bid for a presidential pardon, but some familiar wheeler-dealers that he either funded or fought in his heyday as Wall Street's junk-bond king have resurfaced, let back in the game by a receding stock market. And they aim to play. The names include Carl Icahn, Henry Silverman, Ted Forstmann, Irwin Jacobs and Henry Kravis--an '80s reprise that almost makes you want to cue the Ramones and slam dance...
...dependable old campaign line. "The public is ahead of the politicians on this one," he says. "Witness the success of ballot initiatives and support for change in public opinion polls," he says. "Politicians have old fear of being soft on crime. It's a hangover from the drug war heyday of the 1980s." And even today, some politicians still find a willing audience for anti-drug rants, Nadelmann adds. "It's still possible to demagogue this issue - although demagoguery does not ring as sweet to American ears as it used...
...According to organizers and police alike, this year's counter-inaugural protests will be the largest since Richard Nixon took the oath of office in 1973, during the heyday of anti-Vietman war outrage. And protesters aren't limiting their activities to Saturday: Several groups, including the George Washington University Action Coalition, are sponsoring teach-ins and planning workshops - during which they hope to spark ongoing political interest among protesters...
...PERFECTED HOME PICTUREPHONE: Any day now, engineers are going to figure out how to make videophones cheap enough for someone besides the chairman of Goldman Sachs to use at home. But "now" is the postderegulation telephonic age and the heyday of high-powered telemarketing. Do you have any idea what this means once the Picturephone becomes a common household appliance? It means: "Hi, I'm Kathie Lee Gifford singing the Trans-Vox Long Distance Weekend Offer Song!" "It's me, John Madden, inviting you to sign up now for a low-interest KashKard!" "Got a minute? I'd like...
...Throughout these years, besides writing music that he describes as a "beautiful amalgam of Stravinsky and Schoenberg," Schuller followed closely the fascinating developments in jazz. "In those days, you could hear a tremendous amount of jazz on the radio. This was the heyday of the swing era; jazz was the total popular music of the United States...When I first heard [Duke Ellington], I knew right away, and declared that he was just as great as Beethoven. I still stand by that. If you analyze that music, in terms of the quality and the inspiration of the music, you come...