Word: heydays
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...very successful. And since the heyday of MNF in those years, the show had slipped, to where, even with the addition of the Hank Williams Jr. theme song, cheerleaders from the Victoria Secret's catalog and at-home interaction with the show via the Web, ratings were falling. Thus ABC brought in Ohlmeyer to rejuvenate the show, and Ohlmeyer brought in Miller...
...state capital of 40,000 with a Norman Rockwellish downtown specializing in hiking gear and Italian sodas, and a local college, Evergreen, that is one of America's most left-wing and unconventional fonts of higher learning. While Seattle's bands headbanged on MTV in the alternative-rock heyday of the early '90s, Olympia was locked in her bedroom reading postmodern gender theory and writing songs on her eight-track for college-radio cognoscenti. Now that Seattle's grunge empire has been sacked and burned on the charts by Kid Rock and his rap-metal hordes, Olympia's homework...
Pity the fate of the prolific German composer Georg Philipp Telemann. Never heard of him? Here's why. During his heyday in the 1700s he was quite the pop star on the church-music scene, but according to the Columbia Encyclopedia, "his reputation later declined because he was not an innovator." He has fans today who think he got a bad rap, but it shows how history judges people. The reference work gives far more respect to anyone who really innovated, ranging from fashion guru Elsa Schiaparelli (for the use of shocking pink) to bridge engineer Robert Maillart...
...resurrect the airship. In 1993 a new company was formed to create a prototype, the LZ No. 7, which Danneker piloted on its maiden flight in 1997. Its construction was funded by a foundation set up by companies that came into existence as parts suppliers in Zeppelin's heyday, and their motives sometimes seem more sentimental than business driven. Thus far, only one airship has been built, and another is under construction, with contracts to sell a total of five. Sponsors have invested $35 million to develop the ships, and to break even the company will need to sell about...
SMASHING MICROSOFT The heyday of Microsoft (1995) was also the heyday of the Smashing Pumpkins. Now they're both on the train to splitsville. A tale of two Bills...