Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Case-in-point: Witness last month's orgy of mourning surrounding the death of Frank Sinatra. Despite all of the tribute albums, concerts and books already dedicated to him during his life, oceans of ink about the Chairman of the Board were spilled on the pages of every magazine from Rolling Stone to the New York Review of Books...
...according to FORTUNE magazine, added $10 billion to the economy. What makes him a perfect pitchman for absolutely anything (Nike, Gatorade, McDonald's, Oakley, Rayovac, WorldCom...) is that he wins. While his skills were once those of Baryshnikov, age and triple-teaming defenses have grounded him. So, like Sinatra after he lost his crooning voice, Jordan, with delimited skills, developed an even better game. Through practice, his fadeaway jumper, passing and defense are twice as good as when he started in the league. During the last seconds of the play-off series with the Pacers, Bird told his team...
...subscribing to PEOPLE magazine? To put Frank Sinatra and then Carrey on consecutive covers at a time when India explodes its first nuclear bomb, Indonesia's ruler of 32 years steps down and the Department of Justice sues Microsoft is unconscionable. JEFF NIELSEN Corvallis...
With "The Voice" Sinatra was able to convey the one emotion that singers of my generation, and even my parents' baby-boomer generation, were never able to achieve: the pathos, bittersweet joy, hurt and exhilaration of love. ROBBY BUEGLER Sacramento, Calif...
...returning to her office at 3:30 a.m. for a champagne toast with her staff. She compared her surprise victory to the Academy Award her husband Ernest Borgnine won for Best Actor in 1955. "When Ernie was up for Marty, the odds were against him. He had Frank Sinatra, James Cagney, Spencer Tracy and James Dean, who had just passed away. So, many years apart, we shared an experience in our industries," she said. The FiFi will sit in the Borgnine home media center, next to Ernest's Oscar...