Word: press
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While we don't learn much that's new about Clinton, we do learn a lot about George. He's weepy and can find the cloud in any silver lining. He was so stressed when he realized what an inept press secretary he was that his face broke out and he grew a beard to hide it. He delayed seeking therapy and antidepressants because he feared an unflattering story would leak to the press...
...global glut that has recently pushed prices to a 12-year low, barely higher in real terms than in 1973. After several days of haggling at meetings in Europe and the Persian Gulf, Naimi finally announced a breakthrough: Iran, Algeria, Venezuela, Mexico and the Saudis agreed to press OPEC (the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) and non-OPEC countries for a 2 million- bbl.-a-day reduction in the flow of crude, a figure equivalent to nearly 3% of world output...
...westernmost outpost. In that pre-television era, sports heroes were made out of words, those spoken over the radio during play-by-play broadcasts and those printed in newspapers the next morning. No wonder legends arose. Most people experienced baseball by reading adventure stories in the daily press or by listening, the way the ancient Greeks did, to the voices of the bards...
...keep them alive ("You'll never forget that"). DiMaggio was both hero and celebrity, the distinction being that one does and the other is. The hero was the player; the celebrity dated show girls and eventually married Marilyn Monroe, effecting the merger of America's two favorite pastimes. The press protected him, and he protected himself by silence. Hank Greenberg observed that if DiMaggio said hello to you, that was a long conversation. And he wasn't especially lovable, either. He was better than that; he was admirable...
Here are the reasons, in case it's unclear, that certain actors get profiled in the national press: they're appearing in a TV series and/or a few movies bestowed upon the world simultaneously (our subject qualifies); they're so physically blessed they make John Kennedy Jr. look like Don Rickles (well, maybe not); they're just terrific at what they do (another check mark here). It helps too if there is anything in an actor's history that could be construed as extraordinary. And with James Gandolfini, as it turns out, there happens...