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Houston wanted more than mainstream pop success. It became easier for Black girls in particular to flex, to breathe - to revel in visibility and possibility. Just the sight of her, onstage, on MTV, on an album cover - Houston was proof of life. It can't articulate the profound relief she granted Black teens in the mid-1980s. It doesn't quantify, because there is no quantifying, the influence she continues to have on Beyonce Knowles Carter, Adele Adkins, Alicia Keys, Lady Gaga and other pop singers who rose in her wake. It doesn't include the impact she made on-screen in (and on the soundtracks of) 1992's The Bodyguard, 1995's Waiting to Exhale and 1996's The Preacher's Wife. This Whitney data, of course, does not yet include the zeniths and descents of the second half of her recording career. She was already the first artist in history to have seven consecutive singles go to No. HOUSTON WAS 27 when she sang 'The Star-Spangled Banner' at Super Bowl XXV. Tagliabue - a Jersey City basketball-playing attorney who'd represented the league against the USFL - arrived at Super Bowl XXV in a flak jacket. But Commissioner Tagliabue will not have the regrets of his predecessor. He'd struggled with the decision, and it haunted him his whole career. Pete Rozelle was ravaged in the media for going through with it. It is known as the NFL's 'mourning game' and opened with a lone bugler playing taps. There is a ghost game hovering too - the one played two days after President John F.

'And whether our younger brothers might be drafted.' 'Players were discussing privately if there would be a draft,' former Giants tight end Howard Cross said last year in the New York Post. I think that's the first time they checked bags and really were concerned about terrorist threats.' ' was the shape of things to come,' former defensive back Everson Walls recalled in 2013 for USA Today. Alternate dates, due to a fear of mass casualties, are considered. SWAT teams walk the stadium roof with machine guns. Canines sniff chassis, and ushers wave metal detectors. Concrete bunkers gird the parking lot of old Tampa Stadium, and a 6-foot-high chain-link rises quickly behind that. Commissioner Paul Tagliabue's annual Super Gala gala? Canceled. the Bills, scheduled just 10 days later - is a soft and glaring bull's-eye. There are no color-coded threat level advisory posters on airport walls, but the State Department and the Secret Service agree: The possibility of a terror attack is high, and Super Bowl XXV - the Giants vs. 17, 1991, a coalition of countries led by the United States drops real bombs on real people and real places in real time on four networks. Bush says in August 1990, and by the dawn's early light of Jan. 'This will not stand, this aggression against Kuwait,' President George H.W. Barack Obama is the first Black president - of Harvard Law Review. Steph and Seth Curry are in a Charlotte playpen.

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and not this lost person.' This is the year Mae Jemison preps for the Endeavour, Michael Jordan is ascendant and In Living Color and Twin Peaks stamp the kids who make prestige TV glow in 2016. North and Saint West's late grandfather had not yet read his friend's letter to the world: 'Don't feel sorry for me,' attorney Robert Kardashian said to flashing bulbs. This is one-way pager, peak Gen X quarter-life crisis time - and it wasn't called a quarter-life crisis back then. Mandela is free, and Margaret Thatcher is out. The Berlin Wall? Buzz-sawed, climbed over and kicked through. There's no Facebook - barely a decent chat room to flirt in.

There are no fingerprint scanners at ballparks. In 1991, people are jittery, but no one stands in line in bare feet at airports.

If you were alive - if you were over the age of 5 - you must make yourself remember the time. In 1991, ground zero was just downtown Manhattan. This was before three New York firefighters raised a star-spangled banner amid the sooty rubble of ground zero.

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A full decade before the United States of America came to a brief but full stop - 2,977 people dead and more than 6,000 injured in three states. This is before a young married couple in combat gear killed 14 at a holiday party in San Bernardino. Before 18 people were shot in an Arizona parking lot, along with a congresswoman who took a bullet in the back of the head. Before a Colorado theater was tear-gassed and shot up as The Dark Knight Rises began. Way before Connecticut elementary school classrooms in Newtown were strewn with bullets. Before backpacks stuffed with pressure cookers and ball bearings blew limbs from people at the Boston Marathon. This is before 111 individuals were injured by a bomb made of nails and screws at the Atlanta Olympics. Before six people died in the World Trade Center bombing.