Word: presleys
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...read books like “Mountain Beyond Mountains,” and I imagine myself packing my bags for rural Haiti, Peru, or Africa to help treat diseases with Dr. Paul Farmer, Presley professor of social medicine. But, in the end, I’d choose to study abroad in Spain or eat my way through Italy...
...mistake I made was telling the group that there were no limitations on their choices. I realized my error when Marquardt asked if her nominees had to be alive, since she had Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and Walt Disney on her list. These are problems TIME 100 editors never have to deal with. I told everyone the nominees had to be living as well as residents of this planet and not imaginary friends. I think I witnessed a lot of scratching...
...That's not an unwarranted exaggeration about a performer whose forte was unwarranted exaggeration. She came out of the big band era but thrashed about like a rock star. What Elvis Presley did with his hips, Hutton did with her entire body. She didn't stand behind the mike; she ran amok across the stage, once torpedoing off it and landing on the drummer in the orchestra pit. (Rim shot.) Life with Hutton was just as perilous in Hollywood. She cracked three ribs getting tossed about by acrobats in the movie Incendiary Blonde. Her exuberance often injured her co-stars...
...spent his career nurturing America's obsession with cars. Among his contributions: the globally acclaimed Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, a structure flanked by huge steel fins. The museum houses 200 cars, including a Model T, various Cadillac coupes and a 1971 DeTomaso Pantera that belonged to Elvis Presley...
...Liberty swathed in a burqa. The winning entry is based on mocked-up newscasts from earlier decades, reporting events that might have occurred without the benign influence of the U.S. A final screen flashes a selection of great American contributions to civilization: "A free Afghanistan," "Dishwasher" and "Elvis Presley." After spoofs of the ad sprouted on YouTube--"Slavery," "Nuclear Bomb" and "Vietnam War," retorted one--the original ad shot up the ranks of YouTube's most viewed videos, attracting more than 200,000 viewers to that site and boosting traffic to Doughty Street...