Word: silver
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leader of public opinion. Those who administer our physical life, also administer our spiritual life. He is, in Woodrow Wilson's words, "the spokesman for the real sentiment and purpose of the country." He is thought of by people as a combination of scoutmaster, Delphic oracle, hero of the silver screen and father of the multitudes. The framers of the Constitution took a momentous step when they fused the dignity of a king and the power of a prime minister in one elective office--when they made the president a national leader in the mystical as well as the practical...
...huge silver ball slides ever so deliberately down the pulsing neon face of a building in Times Square, and off leaps one of the world's most wildly imaginative entrepreneurs. It is Richard Branson, the raffish British tycoon who has splashed his company's Virgin logo on everything from airlines to a bridal service. The occasion: the opening of a $15 million, biggest-anywhere, 75,000-sq.-ft. new Virgin music-and-entertainment megastore...
Spectators, from those visiting Harvard Yard for the first time to those who have seen dozens of commencement ceremonies, said they were taken away by the splendor of the rite, which begins with the Middlesex County Sheriff calling the meeting to order by rapping a silver-headed staff on the podium and ends with the peals of bells from 17 churches throughout Cambridge...
These are certainly soigne show-business circles, especially for a model-actress who first came to the world's attention wearing a silver bra in an unseemly Aerosmith video featuring her father, the band's lead singer Steven Tyler. Because Liv grew up obsessed with movies like Night of the Living Dead rather than movies like The Conformist, working with heavyweight directors has been admittedly scary. "There was all this internal fear," she reflects...
Ludwig van Beethoven probably thought he was taking his secrets to the grave when he died in 1827. He thought wrong. While the composer was decorously interred in his beloved Vienna, most of his hair wasn't; souvenir-hunting fans snipped off so much of his silver mane before burial that he went to his tomb almost bald...