Word: pearls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first of a series of local Internet guides to the arts, Seattle Sidewalk, with a Ticketmaster link that allowed customers to buy event tickets via computer, bypassing Ticketmaster's home page. Sales soared, but Ticketmaster was unappreciative. Microsoft ought to add an irony link; it was the Seattle band Pearl Jam that accused Ticketmaster of monopolizing rock-concert ticket sales. And it wasn't too long ago that Microsoft wiggled out of the antitrust docket at the Justice Department. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates knows whom to call to straighten this out. Ticketmaster is controlled by Paul Allen, co-founder...
...this. The seminal Seattle rockers SOUNDGARDEN, one of the first bands to break out of the Northwest, have split up. The terse announcement from their record company gave no reason, not even the usual pat of "creative differences." While never as high-profile as Nirvana or Pearl Jam, the Grammy-winning band sold more than 20 million records. Down on the Upside, their last album, reached No. 2 on the charts. The band, which had recently finished touring, hadn't taken a summer off from one another since 1988. "I heard they were having heavy arguments and stuff at their...
This--a pair of parentheses--to mark the single greatest crusade in American history? To commemorate the largest naval battle ever (Leyte Gulf), the largest amphibious landing ever (Normandy)? To mark the most shocking attack on (Pearl Harbor) and the most shocking attack by (Hiroshima) the U.S.? To memorialize what was not just America's finest hour but, in many ways, America's most important hour, an event whose revolutionary effect on American life and society, on everything from atomic science and aviation to race relations and gender roles, is acutely felt to this...
...comes from the gentleman he is." Hot as he is, Woods would also do well to display the warmth that Palmer often shows his public. When someone pointed out to him on the first tee Thursday that the price tag on his hat was still attached, a la Minnie Pearl, Palmer responded, "That's because I'm going to turn it back in when I finish...
Jesus was hardly tentative about proclaiming the world to come. His first words as a preacher were, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." However, most of his famous metaphors for heaven (as the treasure hidden in a field or the pearl of great price) address humankind's ideal relationship to God's kingdom more than a specific paradise. Regarding heaven's actual "mysteries," he tells the Apostles that it is not given to most people to know them. An exception to this rule is his chilling parable of Lazarus and Dives: The rich master, consigned to hell...