Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first, as Frank Sinatra used to sing, they had high hopes -- pie-in-the- sky hopes. After 40 years as the poor relatives, the East Germans were going to be welcomed into the big house. Following decades of yearning for the good life, as they had seen it nightly on West German television, 16 million East Germans would be inside the supermarket with real money in their pockets. In the country's first-ever free election last March, people acted not only on the principle of one man, one vote, but also for one mark, one mark. Last Sunday, when...
...Stern's sister and his most troublesome client -- a "small-town boy made good, gone bad." To see him on the floor of the commodity exchange is to observe a force of nature: "He stepped into the tiered levels of the pits, shaking hands and tossing greetings like Frank Sinatra onstage, commanding the same reverence, or, in some quarters, subverted loathing." When he admits, "I've always wanted to do what other people wouldn't," Stern replies coolly, "I believe that is called evil, Dixon...
...Cabot-and-Lowell Brahmin aristocracy. In every city there is an inevitable reliance on local TV personalities. A few elite names are good anywhere, anytime, whether they have done something recently or not. Elizabeth Taylor and Jackie Onassis and Barbra Streisand are always news; so are Frank Sinatra and Teddy Kennedy and Sylvester Stallone. Some celebrities, like Sean Penn or Robin Givens, may prove ephemeral, but are omnipresent for their moment. Some celebrities become famous for doing something. Others, like Malcolm Forbes -- who died suddenly of a heart attack last week -- are famous for how lavishly they've spent...
Such habits draw fire. The humor magazine Spy tabulates the number of times Liz's favorites are named in her column: the Today show's Deborah Norville shares top honors with Barbara Walters, both having garnered a mention every six days on average. (Frank Sinatra and Sylvester Stallone crop up every eight days; Madonna gets a boost every twelve.) Boston Herald gossip columnist Norma Nathan thinks Smith is a celebrity groupie who protects her pals: "She's so In, she's Out. She's become part of the story...
...Latin interpretation at the 1968 World Series in Detroit, ending the song with "Oh, yeah." RCA Records pressed a single of it the next day. After that, performers strained to put their personal stamp on the anthem: Lou Rawls (languorous jazz), Aretha Franklin (Motown), Al Hirt (Dixieland) and Frank Sinatra (moody lounge lizard). The prize for the most ear-bending version goes to Jimi Hendrix's screeching finale at Woodstock...