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...strokes, he can no longer walk, is fed through a tube and communicates by pointing to letters of the alphabet on a board. The three prison guards who stood watch over his hospital bed round the clock have been removed. Their departure comes just one day ahead of Biggs' 80th birthday and the 46th anniversary of the train robbery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'Great Train Robber' Freed from Jail | 8/7/2009 | See Source »

...honor 12 civil-rights pioneers the same year marking the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth, the 100th anniversary of the founding the NAACP, the 80th anniversary of the reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the inauguration of President, and Harvard Law School graduate, Barack Obama is a worthy tribute. We ought to commend Professor Gates for his extraordinary efforts to honor these giants in this way, and I hope this letter brings him some measure of the thanks he rightly deserves...

Author: By Charles J. Ogletree, jr. | Title: Stamped with Success | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...country star with When You're Hot, You're Hot, and played Burt Reynolds' rowdy pal in Gator and Smokey and the Bandit; and to Larry Levine, indispensible audio engineer for Phil Spector's Wall of Sound epics and the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds LP. He died on his 80th birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Richard Corliss's 2008 Entertainment Death Reel | 1/10/2009 | See Source »

...right here in Cambridge. With the encouragement of University Professor Stanley Hoffmann, what started as a 30-page assignment grew into an 80-page term paper and ultimately a book. Power, along with dozens of other scholars, paid tribute to Hoffmann’s influential career at an 80th birthday celebration held at the Minda de Gunzberg Center for European Studies on Friday. Throughout the day, Hoffmann’s former students and colleagues hailed him as the kind of professor who has perpetually prioritized teaching undergraduates above his research. Since 1955, Hoffmann has taught in Harvard?...

Author: By Courtney P Yadoo, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Professor Honored at 80th Birthday Celebration | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

...doors in 2003, finds its beauty in playing with linear and curved planes, blurring the line between art and function. The fashion and design pieces inspired by his work are attempting the same feat. They are also broadening Gehry's place in the cultural lexicon in time for his 80th birthday early next year. Roger Vivier's faceted evening clutch and Louis Vuitton's hand-curled cuff seem at first glance more like sculptures than wearable pieces. Fredrikson Stallard's King Bonk chair takes its cues from the deconstructionist movement. And never one to miss an opportunity, Gehry himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculptural Style | 11/17/2008 | See Source »

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