Word: platinum
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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UNDERWEAR FIRST, THEN PANTS. Throughout history, this has been the fundamental principle of good dressing Now, thanks to Miss Ciccone and others in her platinum-headed league of boy toys, even that gilded rule is rather flexible. Fashion is a silly thing. It actually matters very little whether chartreuse is indeed the new black or whether your pants have flare. Trying to capture the fashion of the moments can be like trying to catch a greased pig, only more expensive...
Spero's gentle presence and tone of homagebelie her complete authority. Only her shock ofshort platinum blond hair and her intense featuresgive clues to the vision which has shaped herwork...
...Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley by Peter Guralnick (Little, Brown). The author, a music critic, follows the self-created rock hero as he is borne to platinum paradise on a great celebrity updraft -- this despite Miss Marmann, his eighth-grade music teacher, who told him he couldn't sing worth a lick and gave him a C. Guralnick writes evocatively and sympathetically of Presley's first wild fame -- That's All Right, Mama, his first recording, made him a millionaire -- and tracks the star through the shattering death of his mother Gladys and his entry into...
...membership had its privileges. For as little as $55 a year, consumers could twinkle in fellowship with such glitterati as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Ella Fitzgerald and Meryl Streep. All one had to do was wave one's little piece of green, gold or platinum plastic, and waiters and clerks would fawn prettily. Such potent snob appeal once seemed irresistible -- until American Express "cardmembers" began weighing the costs of privilege against the benefits of more plebeian credit cards. While the AmEx elite shelled out annual fees, Discover clients were issued free cards. Amex users had to pay their bills in full each...
...Girls aren't made-for-video babes. They are not about belly buttons or cleavage or appearing on the Late Show with David Letterman chewing cigars and swearing to get attention, as Madonna did in April. Although their CDs have sold consistently well -- their self-titled debut album went platinum -- both Girls harbor acid feelings about the image-conscious video age. "MTV has hurt music in one sense because people now judge a song by more than just the song," says Ray. But, she concedes, "in the sense of having another art form around -- video -- MTV is probably a good...