Word: idol
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when a worker blames worries about his salary for a faltering job performance? In baseball, he wins a record payoff. Admittedly distracted by negotiations for a new contract, shortstop Cal Ripken Jr. is hitting more than 70 points below his 1991 average of .323. Still, he is a fan idol whom the Baltimore Orioles dared not let go. Last week they signed Ripken to play five more years for an average $6.1 million per. The total guaranteed value of $30.5 million tops the four-year, $28 million deal the Chicago Cubs gave second baseman Ryne Sandberg and is the richest...
...took me awhile to tell my sister about it. She took the news hard--her idol was tarnished. She refused to believe I really liked it, preferring instead to pretend it was all a sick joke on my part. Where was my taste for authenticity? For grunge...
Nevertheless, some of Bellows' finest paintings were set on an island at the farthest possible remove from Manhattan: Monhegan, on the Maine coast, where his idol Winslow Homer had also painted. Though born and raised in Ohio, Bellows had coastal roots -- his grandfather was a whaler at Montauk on the eastern tip of New York's Long Island -- and the Atlantic was as fundamental a source of imaginative nourishment to him as it had been to Melville or Whitman. "We two and the great sea," he wrote to his wife in a moment of romantic exaltation, "and the mighty rocks...
...needed no hype. It really was a picture-perfect wedding. The sheltered bride- to-be blushed and gazed with ardor at her proud fiance. She had little to say for herself, nothing much at all in the way of experience, accomplishment or taste. But the press spotted its new idol. Diana quickly became an international obsession. Before the girl reached the altar, her distraught mother had written the Times of London to complain with poignant naivete that fictitious incidents were actually being concocted and quotes made...
NOBODY WILL EVER FIGURE IT out. Artie Shaw had achieved everything that success as a bandleader in his era could bestow: pop-idol celebrity, money, movie-star wives, near veneration for his instrumental virtuosity. Why did he suddenly walk away from it all? In 1954, after two high-flying decades at the head of ensembles as popular as -- and often more innovative than -- Glenn Miller's, Tommy Dorsey's and Benny Goodman's, after a succession of hits (Begin the Beguine, Frenesi) that sold millions of records around the world, Shaw, then 44, packed up his clarinet and quit...