Word: jacksonism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...death as in life, there is never a dull moment when it comes to Michael Jackson. Police in California's Santa Barbara County met on June 30 to discuss how to deal with an expected mad rush of traffic on the narrow hillside road leading to Jackson's Neverland Ranch for a planned memorial service on July 3. Jackson's body will arrive there a day earlier, in a 30-car motorcade from Los Angeles. Meanwhile, the singer's hometown of Gary, Ind., is reportedly seeking to have the body shipped there for another memorial service being planned for July...
...singer's father Joe Jackson denied speculation that Neverland Ranch will be turned into a Graceland-style attraction, with the Gloved One's grave as the central attraction. "That is not true," Joe Jackson told reporters when asked whether his son was to be buried at Neverland, which has been owned by a private-equity firm since Michael defaulted on a loan. Although the family patriarch declined to discuss specifics on the time and place of a funeral, citing the second autopsy as a cause for delay, he hinted at grand, Lady Di-scale plans. "I've never heard...
...spokeswoman Melodie Jackson said that while faculty and staff hiring has been roughly flat at HKS over the past five years, compensation and benefits still make up 59 percent of the School's operating budget. Prior to last week's layoffs, 498 staff worked at HKS, she said...
...inkling of what was going on at home. No idea that Hillary Clinton had broken her arm, or how Obama's health-care initiative was going. But as we gathered for breakfast at our orientation site Friday morning, people periodically rushed in, clutching their cell phones, exclaiming, "Michael Jackson died!" —the one piece of news their parents thought important enough to share via text message from the U.S. Suddenly, home felt a whole lot closer...
When we got in the dalla dalla to drive into town, "We are the World" was playing on the radio. When we showed up at Masai Camp, a local club, on Friday night, we arrived right in the middle of a Michael Jackson tribute. Even the Tanzanian local papers have entire pages dedicated to the coverage of his death. And though it initially seemed funny that, of all the news to make its way halfway around the world, it was the death of a pop star that found its way here, it fits right in with Tanzania's perception...