Word: pioneeringly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CHARLES A. LINDBERGH 1927 The pioneer, flying alone across the Atlantic...
...Gordon Hunt and Jane, a photographer. "I wasn't that movie-obsessed," Helen recalls. "We were at the theater all the time." For years she was just another out-of-work actress taking classes and studying her craft. Then she turned nine and got a job, as the blond pioneer girl in the 1973 TV movie Pioneer Woman. Even then, Helen had the mile-high forehead, perfect oval face and watchful stillness of a Vermeer maiden. "It was very strange," she says. "Somebody forgot to tell me I was a kid. In Pioneer Woman, I was trying to play Sophie...
...Franz Schubert's "Ave Maria" in Old English. One of the producers, Linda Feder, writes that Cornell "felt very strongly about wanting to do a traditional song, a classical piece, something that might turn young people onto classical music." Who would have thought the same guy who helped pioneer Seattle grunge could sing so magnificently...
...PIONEER PUBLISHER Sporting muddy work clothes as he cleared a trail with his chainsaw in Norfolk, Conn., 6-ft. 7-in. James Laughlin looked more like a refugee from the set of the film Deliverance than one of America's most distinguished publishers. Except for indulgences such as a fondness for television shows like Hawaii Five-O, Laughlin was austere--in his business ventures, his poetry and his habits. New Directions, the publishing house he founded while still a sophomore at Harvard, gave meager advances but brought to the world's attention Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Henry Miller...
...pioneer of the faux-Letterman gang was Australia's Steve Vizard, a lawyer turned comedian who was host of a late-night show down under for three years, starting in 1990. He had the Letterman repertoire down pat, introduc-ing bits with the same tongue-in-cheek flourish ("I have in my left hand... "). Staff members would even prep American guests on the show by telling them, "Just pretend you're on the Letterman show." Though critics hooted at the thievery, most Aussie viewers didn't get the references--until 1994, when the real Letterman show started airing in Australia...