Word: ring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...G.I.s and their sweethearts. In the '50s, the persona went to war with the man. Sinatra at ballad tempo was the soul-sick, lovelorn, solitary man who closes down a midtown saloon. Up-tempo, and increasingly in his life, he was the unapologetic and (some said) unconscionable swinger, the ring-a-ding ringmaster of a million all-night parties. Which was the real Sinatra, the reveler or the lost...
...promoters have thought, "Hey, here's a good-lookin' kid who can carry a tune; maybe he can be the next Frank Sinatra." More than a few were wrong. Singers could be very talented and still not be Sinatra. Here's how a few measured on Frank's Ring-A-Ding Rating...
...decades, and whose most private relationships are themselves so inherently sensational is hardly giving a false image of himself by putting on a show. The Woody Allen of Wild Man Blues may or not be "the real Woody Allen," whatever that means, but his jokes, confessions, and worries all ring true when held against one another...
...telephone is torture. It doesn't ring, and his stomach grows holes. It does ring, and he can't dare get his hopes...
...drug companies aren't the only ones that will benefit from boomer products. The industry will spend more than $1 billion this year selling its new remedies. The pitches may have the familiar ring of youth-in-a-bottle advertising. Only this time, the stuff will really work...