Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Watching the Bay State's skyline was a way of marking the economic evolution of a nation: the graceful masts of 18th century sailing ships gave way to the red brick smokestacks of 19th century textile mills, which in turn made way for the steel-and-glass towers of 20th century corporate power...
...twin obstacles in the path of contemporary music are the past and the recent past. In the violin repertoire, the beloved romantic concertos have maintained such an iron grip on audience affections that even indisputable 20th century masterworks have been neglected in favor of the millionth performance of the Beethoven, Brahms or Tchaikovsky concertos. It has not helped that some compositions of the '50s and '60s amounted to teeth-grinding assaults on the instrument that made both soloists and audiences recoil...
...20th century, says Stern, "is one of the richest periods in musical creativity." A discriminating advocate of contemporary violin music who has given premieres of concertos by William Schuman, George Rochberg and Krzysztof Penderecki, Stern has had a privileged view of modern musical history; in June he will premiere a work by Britain's iconoclastic Peter Maxwell Davies in Scotland. The phantasmagorical Dutilleux concerto was commissioned by Radio France in celebration of Stern's 60th birthday almost six years ago ("He had problems about coming to an end," says Stern, explaining the delay) and was first performed in Paris last...
...Late Show Starring Joan Rivers will be more than just a pesky new competitor to Carson. It is the first salvo in a major assault on the three networks by Rupert Murdoch, the media mogul who last year bought Metromedia's six TV stations and 20th Century-Fox studios. Rivers' program is the first offering from Murdoch's new Fox Broadcasting Co., which he hopes will grow into a full-fledged fourth network. Along with the Rivers show, FBC plans to introduce two nights of prime-time programming next March (one announced show: a half-hour sitcom based...
Money aside, no one doubts that Gallo is as eager as the French to get the glory for one of the more important discoveries in late-20th century medicine. "It's what we call the race for the Nobel Prize," says one cynical scientist. In their second action, the Pasteur researchers are attempting to prove that they were the first to identify the AIDS virus. They hope to show either that the Americans derived their virus from French samples--essentially appropriating the virus as their own--or that the American discovery depended on key information provided by the Pasteur samples...