Word: advent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entrepreneurial spirit never ages. Henry Kloss, 53, founded his first company, Acoustic Research in Cambridge, Mass., at the age of 22. It made stereo speakers, and he eventually sold it to his partner. Headstrong and impulsive, Kloss has since gone on to establish three more home electronics firms, including Advent, which is now in receivership. His latest is Kloss Video, which makes large-screen-projection TV sets and was started in 1977. But Kloss may now be too tired for another new venture. Says he: "Each one of those enterprises started with a bare room...
...University Health Services, doctors formerly frequently sterilized women by hysterectomy before the advent of safer, simpler tubal ligation methods...
Nowadays Americans lavish little art but elaborate care on their cats. It may have been a technological breakthrough that made cat tending less onerous and fueled all this attention. Explains one close observer of the animal universe, Boston Veterinarian Jean Holzworth: "When you talk about convenience, the advent of cat litter is comparable to the invention of the electric light bulb." Litter boxes are now big-selling staples in pet stores. They cost from $2.50 to $34.95. Some of them are kick-proof and odor-proof. The latest behavior-modification device is Kitty Whiz, a potty trainer that purportedly teaches...
...film director who devised such techniques as multiple screens, double-printing and wide-angle lenses to create brilliant silent movies, including the 1927 masterpiece Napoléon; in Paris. A prolific film maker, Gance produced such classics as I Accuse and The Wheel. But his success ended with the advent of talkies. Shuttling between unemployment and obscure commercial movies, he complained: "I prostituted myself not to live but to avoid dying." Five decades later, one understanding producer, Francis Coppola, helped English Film Historian Kevin Brownlow present a reassembled copy of Napoleon, shown last January in New York City. The revival...
...Harvard-Brown history is an old--and well-documented--one. In the years that Ivy League women's soccer was a club sport, Brown dominated Northeastern soccer. But starting in 1978 with the advent of varsity status for the sport, Harvard emerged as a usurper to Brown's crown, defeating the Bruins in the finals of the first two Ivy Championships...