Word: packs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years Frank Sinatra has won an enthusiastic following among college students through no effort of his own. Usually, young people start listening to him because they find his Rat Pack cool campily appealing, but ironic condescension soon turns to true admiration of his talent. Even though it's not really necessary for Sinatra's handlers to market him to the kids, they have done so anyway. Last year, notably, he was paired on Duets with Bono, Carly Simon, Aretha Franklin and other younger-than-Frank performers...
...cover of Vamps & Tramps; there is Paglia, in her Pussy Galore regalia, striking a doo-wop pose. So maybe it's time for her to hit Broadway and take over the Rizzo role in Grease. Wherever Paglia goes, she will make sure she's the leader of the pack...
...whole approach was like, 'I'm just a friendly guy', and it was really effective," Han says. "It was the little things--he was holding a pack of fluorescent note cards, not some leather organizer...
Many of the Americans had never been out of the U.S. before, much less part of a hazardous clandestine operation. Suddenly, they were being whisked aboard C- 5 transports for the flight to Kazakhstan, the huge and barren former Soviet republic. Their mission: to pack more than 1,300 lbs. of highly enriched uranium into barrels for shipment back to the U.S. to prevent the material from falling into the wrong hands. They had only a few weeks to perform the delicate procedure. The harsh Central Asian winter was coming, and once it arrived, it would be difficult...
...recent rumors that Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen, 73, will resign early next year, leaving the Clinton Administration without one of its most experienced and highly-regarded policy makers. Bentsen, however, took a page from the Mark Twain playbook, telling reporters that reports of his departure were "premature." Leading the pack of talked-about replacements: Robert Rubin, head of Clinton's National Economic Council and the former co-chairman of Goldman, Sachs & Co. TIME Washington correspondent Adam Zagorin says Bentsen has decided to quit "for a lot of reasons. First, he's getting on. The timing coincides with what would have...