Word: heydays
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Peninsula, in its heyday of the early '90s, was in some ways emblematic of its times. Gomes alluded to "a sort of political fever in the country," typified by the "culture wars" of soon-to-be presidential candidate Pat Buchanan...
...which was originally enacted largely to better police the unions. One of the main criticisms of the younger Hoffa's tenure has been his push to re-decentralize the Teamsters. His critics say this would return the nation's most famous (and third largest) union to its notorious 1950s heyday, when mobsters ran the locals and local bosses got fat on kickbacks. Where's Terry ("I coulda been a contender") Malloy when you need...
...including CBS' $64,000 Question, ABC's Mastermind and You Don't Know Jack--admit they were caught short by Regis Philbin's success. But they are making up for it, piling on 6 1/2 hours of prime-time quizzing a week--as much as in the game-show heyday of the '50s. "Honestly, I had not been thinking about game shows before Millionaire," says Darnell. When offered a show by Dick Clark, he liked the idea right away. "I said, 'I love the idea of a group rather than one person. But let's go back and make...
Good thing Russia doesn't have chain restaurants spread all over the world, because the Chechens appear to have some very angry friends. Four rocket-propelled grenades slammed into the Russian embassy in downtown Beirut, Monday, killing two policemen and recalling that city's heyday as the mayhem capital of the Middle East. The attacks followed weeks of protest by local Islamic militants against Russia's military campaign in Chechnya, which the U.S. warned Sunday could become an albatross around the neck of acting President Vladimir Putin if he's unable to find an exit strategy...
CONCERTS Most of the top touring groups of the '90s had seen their recording heyday in an earlier decade...