Word: opened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...legal mag publishes a Ginsburg open letter: "Congratulations, Mr. Starr!" he writes. "As a result of your callous disregard for cherished constitutional rights, you may have succeeded in unmasking a sexual relationship between two consenting adults." Oops...
...Memorial Day, Monica's parents had concluded that Ginsburg had to go. And just a few days later, they had reason to want to kick him out immediately: they were blindsided by his "open letter" to Ken Starr in California Lawyer, in which Ginsburg said Starr "may have succeeded in unmasking a sexual relationship between two consenting adults." Inasmuch as those words seem to acknowledge the possibility that there was sex between Clinton and Lewinsky, it would contradict her denials in the affidavit she presented in the Paula Jones case. If dropping hints that his client may have perjured herself...
...music. So Time Out of Mind brought Dylan safely back home again to the hot center. It was as if everyone suddenly woke up and figured it was Dylan who had been asleep all these years. In fact, as always, he was the only one with his eyes open. To know that, all you had to do--still, and ever--is listen. And ask yourself the same question he flung...
Bessie Smith, who earned the title Empress of the Blues in part through the sale of some 750,000 copies of her first record, took women's blues to a new level. Among other things, songs like her Poor Man's Blues ("Mister rich man, rich man, open up your heart and mind/ Give the poor man a chance, help stop these hard, hard times") represented pioneering social protests in black American popular music. Smith became the first black woman "superstar," traveling with her own tent show and attracting huge audiences...
...entertainment--its cuter, more popular sister--change in radical, unpredictable ways. And at each turn they become more democratic, more accessible. The printing press starts with Bibles and ends up with pulp fiction. Radio popularizes rock 'n' roll. TV spawns the sitcom. Now consider the possibilities that will open up as the computer meets the Net--not the network of today, with piddly, slow connections that are mainly good for relaying e-mail. But the Net of a hundred years from now, when media can move at the speed of light...