Word: majority
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only was Sarazen the first to win all four major championships, he put the Masters on the map with his "shot heard 'round the world...
...watching Francis Ouimet win the 1913 U.S. Open. Nine years later, Sarazen won the U.S. Open with a final-round 68 to defeat Jones and Walter Hagen, then won the PGA Championship later that season at Oakmont. He beat Hagen in the PGA in 1923 and won seven major championships...
Like the sand wedge he invented, the major championships he won and the elegant sportsmanship he displayed, Gene Sarazen was the very essence of golf...
...Lucas showed beyond any shadow of a doubt that the culture of childhood sells. Perhaps this doesn't come as such a shock to we of the immediate gratification generation, as we've been called (the name itsel implies childishness). But just look at the sorts of movies that major studios were pouring big bucks into in the '60s and '70s--quirky art movies like Robert Altmans Nashville or dark dramas like Martin Scorceses Mean Streets. Even the shoot-em-ups were intellectual. If you don't believe me, check out Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde. Sure, there...
...Kenner Toys and a line of 93 figures, countless vehicles and elaborate playsets. Sum total: over $350 million in box-office and related sales. (And that's in '70s dollars.) Star Wars, in a sense, put the popular back in popular culture. It would be a long time before major studios started to finance quirky, intellectual art movies again as they did in the pre-Lucas days. The race would be not to make the most stimulating or challenging movie but the most scintillating one--the movie with the biggest effects, the most explosions, the greatest body count...