Word: actualizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While there is some question whether this and several other of the earliest recorded sightings involved actual exploding stars, there is little doubt about the guest star of A.D. 185. "Second year of the Chung-p'ing reign period," reads an ancient Chinese text, "tenth month, day kuei-hai, a guest star appeared within nanmen. It was as large as half a mat; it was multicolored, and it scintillated. It gradually became smaller and disappeared in the sixth month of the year after next." The description, especially concerning the brightness and slow fade of the star, seems to confirm...
...novelists have been interested in setting imaginary characters loose against a background of authentic, tumultuous events. Small wonder. History is, after all, drama readymade, an endless pageant playing at all hours in the public domain. Writers who elect to fuse their private inventions with the collective memory of an actual past can create electrifying effects. Witness the towering achievements of War and Peace or the enduring popular appeal of Gone With the Wind. The formula has its pitfalls, of course, in the hands of the inept: cardboard people posing stiffly in front of papier-mache reconstructions. Even so, fiction that...
...acquire Supermarkets General for $1.6 billion would join two retailers. Dart owns discount auto-parts stores and book outlets, while Supermarkets General specializes in food and drugs. Some analysts suspect that the Haft family, which controls the Dart Group, would be perfectly content to stop short of an actual merger and sell its current shares in Supermarkets General at a profit...
...minute session. The readers work out of a small room in the apartment, where packs of Tarot cards, colorful crystals, and an occasional bag of runes can be seen on set out on small tables. But the readers say that these objects are mere tools, and that the actual reading of a person is done through psychic abilities...
...final offer, Harvard could offer richies the opportunity to buy student's actual identities. Students would assume the name of the highest bidder for the duration of their undergraduate years. For a hefty monetary stipend, I will gladly call myself "The Holworthy student of economics...