Word: vanguardism
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That was only the beginning. In 1990, two years after she quit Smith Barney, Brown landed a record contract with Vanguard. A year later, soon after the release of her first solo album, Brown became the first and only woman ever named the International Bluegrass Music Association Instrumentalist of the Year...
...gentle astronomer John Hagen supervised the design of the Vanguard's rocket, technically far superior to the Soviet boosters. It lurched and blew up on the pad. Senate majority leader Lyndon Johnson raged, "How long, how long, O God, how long will it take us to catch up with Russia's satellites...
Sometimes the old can heave the new into the beyond. Old ways have hustled French furniture manufacturer Domeau & Peres into the vanguard of its field. Bruno Domeau is a trained saddlemaker who plied his trade in the luxury-automobile industry. Philippe Peres traveled France studying with master craftsmen as an apprentice upholsterer with the Compagnons du Devoir, a throwback to the craftsmen's guilds of the Middle Ages. Yet they have yoked their skills to the plowshare of contemporary design. "We're unusual because we're handcraftmen who've decided to work in the contemporary field," says Peres. "Producing contemporary...
...patient was a married man in his 60s. Nowadays, he's still married but more likely to be in his 50s. One trend that has started to worry public-health officials, however, is the growing recreational use of Viagra in some settings. Gay men seem to be at the vanguard of this trend. Viagra, often in combination with illegal drugs like ecstasy, enables patrons of sex clubs to have sex with more partners, which increases their risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) like syphilis and aids. "One out of three sexually active gay men at our STD clinics...
...Brando had it easier than Presley; for in pop, more than in acting, it's tough to remain in the vanguard. Consider the four overlapping phases of Elvis' music. Phase 1: At Sun Records, he borrowed blues from blacks and country songs from rednecks, passing them along to the huge middle-class. Phase 2: He got sharp material from top young songwriters (primarily Leiber-Stoller and Otis Blackwell) that he could make his own. But early rock didn't allow for much variety: 12-bar blues, 16-bar pop song. Phase 3 began in late 1957, when every songwriter...