Word: tenn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stonewall them. "I was nine when I asked my mother the Big Question," says Michael, in Detroit. "I'll never forget. She took out her driver's license and pointed to the line about male or female. 'That is sex,' she said." Laurel, a 17-year-old in Murfreesboro, Tenn., wishes her parents had taken more time with her to shed light on the subject. When she was six and her sister was nine, "my mom sat us down, and we had the sex talk," Laurel says. "But when I was 10, we moved in with...
Digital printing systems are breathing new life into out-of-print books. Lightning Print Inc. of LaVergne, Tenn., makes inexpensive ($15-$25), quickie paperback versions of older books, allowing bibliophiles to discover forgotten works from Phillip K. Dick, Doris Lessing and others. Only 150 titles are available to date, but the company hopes to offer 10,000 by year's end. The catch: Lightning Print works directly with publishers and prints only books ordered by them. To buy a Lightning Print book, customers must check with a bookstore or online seller to see what's in stock...
...thought he was nuts. They spoke darkly of failing mental health, of incipient Alzheimer's, of the sinister influence of the new Mrs. Goldwater--a left-winger! A more likely explanation is that conservatives, like liberals, had always mismeasured him. As a presidential candidate, Goldwater traveled to Memphis, Tenn., to call for eliminating cotton subsidies; he went to Florida to advocate dismantling Social Security; in Tennessee he said he wanted to sell off the Tennessee Valley Authority. For such a man, it was not so long a leap to opine 20 years later, during the ascendancy of the religious right...
...reign has been long. Born in 1942 in Memphis, Tenn., she started recording when she was just 14. Since then, she has had 20 No. 1 R. and B. hits and won 17 Grammys. Her breakthrough album, I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (1967), was a Top 40 smash. Three decades later, after Motown, after disco, after the Macarena, after innumerable musical trendlets and one-hit wonders, Franklin's newest album, her critically acclaimed A Rose Is Still a Rose (1998), is another Top 40 smash. Although her output has sometimes been tagged (unfairly...
...unmarried parents, Winfrey was raised by her grandmother on a farm with no indoor plumbing in Kosciusko, Miss. By age 3 she was reading the Bible and reciting in church. At 6 she moved to her mother's home in Milwaukee, Wis.; later, to her father's in Nashville, Tenn. A lonely child, she found solace in books. When a seventh-grade teacher noticed the young girl reading during lunch, he got her a scholarship to a better school. Winfrey's talent for public performance and spontaneity in answering questions helped her win beauty contests--and get her first taste...