Word: minding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ryder Cup is the greatest and noblest sporting event for three reasons. First, it is rare enough to solicit special interest, but not so rare that it ever slips one's mind. The Superbowl, the NBA finals, and the World Series occur annually: there's always next year. Golfers, however, must wait two long years for another chance. And while the quadrennial Olympics are too remote to impress itself upon one's mind, golfers begin to compete for slots on the next Ryder Cup team as soon as one Ryder Cup ends...
...letterhead of the venerable bank founded by Alexander Hamilton, which made the very first loan to the fledgling U.S. government in the 1780s, Gurfinkel wrote a fulsome letter to Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan, urging the Fed to let Inkombank open a representative office in the U.S. Never mind that 14 months earlier some of the bank's largest shareholders had filed suit charging Inkombank with outright theft of $40 million in capital. Or that just a month before, the Russian central bank had issued a harshly critical audit of Inkombank irregularities...
...Replay named Kim LeMasters, former president of CBS Entertainment, as its chairman and CEO. "They have not brought me in for my ability to figure out what bugs are on the CPU," LeMasters says. "They brought me in for that portfolio I brought from Hollywood and for my different mind-set and my ability to examine the marketplace...
...journey the album depicts parallels Reznor's own rocky one. The mind-whammy of sudden celebrity, the devastating 1997 death of the grandmother who raised him in his hometown of Mercer, Pa., and the overwhelming pressure to come up with another hit all converged to push Reznor into a quicksand of depression. "I was in a bad place," he recalls. "I couldn't work. I couldn't look in the mirror." Seldom listening to radio, tuning in to MTV "only to remind myself not what to do," he shut himself off from the world. For weeks he avoided the studio...
Reznor is far from defanged. He relishes his stance as a rock outsider. "I still feel like I don't fit in anywhere," he says. He insists that his role will always be cartographer of the murkier depths of the mind. "I'll always feel a passion for what's behind the door." And he remains a trenchant critic of the record business and the "sound-alike, look-alike meaningless music" that rules today's pop but saps its relevance. He has bigger targets too: America's gun culture and the finger pointing of Washington moralists who blamed musicians...