Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crowd and the trappings of celebrity are hard enough to relinquish voluntarily; it is even more difficult to walk away from something one has spent a lifetime attaining. Retirement is particularly agonizing for singers. Pianists and conductors have been known to perform into their 80s or even their 90s, but opera stars know that biology is destiny. Some time in their 50s or early 60s, the powerful, flexible and ultimately mysterious instrument that has been the source of their artistry frays, cracks and disappears...
DIED. Marcel Moyse, 95, celebrated French flutist who premiered works by Stravinsky and Ravel, wrote more than 30 comprehensive books on flute technique and was an influential teacher into his 90s. He passed on the playing style of the great 19th century French School to several of today's virtuosi, among them France's Jean-Pierre Rampal, who called Moyse "the king," and Ireland's James Galway, who claimed him as "my guru" in Brattleboro...
There is no reason to believe that Reagan's intelligence is diminishing. "The competence of an individual does not change much with age," said Dr. T Franklin Williams, director of the National Institute on Aging. "Many people in their 80s and 90s are quite capable of being President." Gerontologists point out that China is vigorously run by Deng Xiaoping, 80, and that half the members of the Soviet Politburo are over...
...matter what happens, there will be a lot of action here, in the '80s and '90s," Canizares added...
Khomeini at 84 seems to be as unexpectedly resilient as his regime. Living off a strict regimen of boiled potatoes and raw vegetables, he is, say foreign visitors, rosy-cheeked and relatively healthy. His brother, Ayatullah Pasandideh, is still going strong in his late 90s. Though Khomeini has not been seen outside his closely guarded home in the old village of Jamaran for three years, he still oversees every political aspect of his country's day-to-day affairs, while holding court each day before a host of visitors...