I wasn't having the best year… or the best decade, as I realised!
The 1990's as a whole, in fact, was the best decade in stock market history.
The 1960s was the best decade for music Sure, the decade of pop's explosion produced some fine acts, but all were defiantly pop.
He insisted that his work never suffered as a result of his partying, but he acknowledged that the '90s were not his best decade professionally.
As his first lover and lifelong best friend, Wesley Mancini, a fabric designer, said, "His 40s were definitely the best decade of his life".
"I wanted it to come out of an era that I think to be the best decade of cinema in America, the 1970s, in which an actor's character and behaviour were more important than plot," he adds.
"Painted on 21st Street: Helen Frankenthaler From 1950 to 1959," at the Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea, performs the useful service of setting it firmly in the context of the 1950s, the best decade of the artist's career.
The first years of this century have produced Africa's best decade of economic expansion since the end of the colonial era, with many countries showing growth rates of 5 percent or more since the year 2000.
