Word: riveras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most violently irrational, erotic images of Eros and Thanatos ever committed to canvas. He was not a realist painter/reporter, still less anyone's official muralist, and yet Guernica remains the most powerful political image in modern art, rivaled only by some of the Mexican work of Diego Rivera...
...most telling physical landmark of the restaurant, however, is the immense, brightly colored mural in the style of Diego Rivera which wraps around behind the bar and open kitchen. In it, merry people amuse themselves beneath strands of Spanish moss, dangling over the fancy wrought-iron balconies and balustrades of Southern gothic buildings. All drink and laugh profusely, and all are glaringly white. The image is a perfect metaphor for the cuisine. Magnolias strives to emulate New Orleans, but a piece of its heart will always be in New Canaan...
...talk show in 1991, having served as mayor of Cincinnati in his early 30s and then anchoring a local news show there. With curly red hair, round glasses and slightly nasal voice, he has a style that is less empathic than Phil Donahue's and less excitable than Geraldo Rivera's. He's the intelligent, slightly smarmy observer of the antics around him. This is the peak of his career, but that doesn't mean he's getting as rich as Winfrey. Major advertisers like Procter & Gamble shun his show, which can charge only about a third of what Oprah...
...their guests shared their personal tales. Lake, whose show debuted in 1993, refined the formula by adding confrontation. With her success came a clutch of imitators and a new round of fretting about trash television. But with all the competition, ratings began to decline, and by 1996, hosts like Rivera and Lake were taking the pledge to become more high-minded. They were encouraged by the experience of Jenny Jones, one of whose guests murdered another. These shifts and the success of Rosie O'Donnell heralded a new era of niceness, or so it was believed. In fact, a nastiness...
...Luis Rivera added a three-run homer for Houston...