Word: premiere
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...infant, television a dream, alcohol consumption a crime. There were few awards in fields of frivol: Oscars, Tonys, Grammys didn't exist. But some people in Atlantic City thought they should give a prize and a title to a pretty girl. The town was the East Coast's premier seaside resort, so she probably ought to wear a bathing suit. And hoping to extend the summer season, the pageant's creators scheduled it for after Labor...
...pick up coded cables. How Moscow secretly offered financial aid to Vice President Hubert Humphrey for his 1968 presidential campaign against Richard Nixon (Humphrey declined the offer). How Soviet Party Secretary Leonid Brezhnev got drunk while visiting Nixon at San Clemente and vilified Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny and Premier Alexei Kosygin. Hours later, a sleepwalking First Lady Pat Nixon appeared in a nightgown and was carried back to her bed by a kgb agent. How Brezhnev collapsed with seizures just before and after his 1975 summit in Vladivostok with Gerald Ford-and, while summiting with Jimmy Carter in Vienna...
...London, 1944. Marian Ames, the ever-so-gracefully-aging screen queen, is fronting an all-girl band to entertain the Eighth Air Force with tunes that spotlight some of the era's premier lyricists. They play Frank Loesser's Love Isn't Born, It's Made; Johnny Burke's Thank Your Lucky Stars and Stripes and His Rocking Horse Ran Away; Don Raye's Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, Rhumboogie and Beat Me, Daddy, Eight to the Bar. As in any creative assembly, there are spells of emotional fireworks. But the ladies play and sing handsomely, even during an air raid...
...Premier John Swan fulfilled his pledge to step down as leader of his party after Bermuda voted down a referendum calling for independence from Britain by a margin of three-to-one.TIME's Cathy Boothreports: "There is a growing sense in Bermuda that its problems -- drugs, in particular -- are beyond its control without Britain." Bermudans were also likely concerned that independence might weaken the country economically. The World Bank consistently ranks Bermuda one of the five richest countries in the world. "The voters probably felt that if it isn't broke, so to speak, why fix it?" said Booth...
...Lennox, Melissa Etheridge, Bonnie Raitt and Sheryl Crow, hit the Billboard Top 10. Some of these singers are also represented on Women for Women, with part of the sales money destined for breast-cancer research. In September, Rounder Records will release Global Divas, a three-CD set of the premier thrushes in world music; some proceeds will go to the United Nations Development Fund for Women. The Portuguese sextet Madredeus, featuring ethereal vocals by Teresa Salgueiro, gets a handsome showcase in Wim Wenders' new film, Lisbon Story...