Word: nirvanas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...moved up from Transportation Secretary to displace arrogant-to-the-end John Sununu. Skinner was just what George Bush needed -- a crisis manager who flies coach class . . . Wal-Mart isn't just a discount store anymore. Sam Walton's brainchild surpassed Sears in 1991 as the largest U.S. retailer . . . Nirvana found its place in alternative-rock heaven. The hit single Smells Like Teen Spirit has become an anthem for apathetic kids . . . Aung San Suu Kyi couldn't pick up her Nobel Peace Prize this year because the regime in Burma (also known as Myanmar) holds her under house arrest...
SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY AND THE ASBURY JUKES: BETTER DAYS (Impact). Juke-joint Nirvana, with Southside smoking his way through 11 smash tunes, mostly written by Little Steven Van Zandt, and holding his own with some heavy company, including Jon Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. When Springsteen joins Johnny and Little Steven to sing It's Been a Long Time, you can hear friendship recalled and solidified -- and a touch of history being made...
...Also, the meta-politics of The Dead movement focus on this sense of creating what is not there, of making a better world. There is a feeling of the virtuality of nirvana that permeates many Dead concerts," Boone says...
...joined the Kansas City Royals as promotion director, where he made many friends (George Brett wears a DITTO T shirt at batting practice) but was still restless. "In 1982," he recalls, "I was looking at a $35,000-a-year job selling potato chips in Liberty, Mo., as Nirvana. But I didn't get the job." Nothing to do but go back to radio, this time in the burgeoning field of talk. He spent four years in Sacramento before moving to New York's WABC in 1988 and becoming the Clown Prince of Conservatism...
...chest pains last year and learned that her cholesterol level was in the upper stratosphere, the 57-year-old office manager has tried to cut down on the fat in her diet. Easier said than done. Although the labels on every other product in the grocery store promised nutritional nirvana, Vavreck found herself floundering in quagmires of grease, salt, corn syrup and other dubious digestibles. "I thought I was doing pretty well because I was always buying the stuff that said 'low cholesterol' or 'no cholesterol,' " she recalls. "But then I found out that the fat content in some...