Word: albert
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...politics abhors a vacuum, and last week there were signs that two of the brightest, and youngest, lights in Southern politics were poised to enter the race: Tennessee Senator Albert Gore, 39, and Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, 40. Gore acknowledges that he has "agreed to actively consider the possibility of running." Money does not appear to be an obstacle: after meeting with Gore in Washington on Friday, a dozen top Democratic fund raisers anointed him as their candidate if he enters the race by next week. "If Albert Gore runs," promises Developer Nathan Landow, "he will be a well- financed...
This unusual glimpse into guarded emotions can be found in Ozawa, airing on PBS March 27. Shot in 1984 by Albert and the late David Maysles, it is a backstage look at one of classical music's best-known yet least understood figures. Ozawa has been music director of the Boston Symphony since 1973, and as one of the world's top maestros, he appears in such musical capitals as Berlin, Paris and Milan. Yet the first East Asian to succeed in a quintessentially Western art form remains solidly Japanese in temperament and outlook. It is this clash of cultures...
...London curb in 1933 and being struck by the shattering inspiration of sustained chain reaction; Cambridge's Ernest Rutherford angling for the secrets of the universe with string and red sealing wax; Pierre Curie's hands, swollen by prolonged exposure to radium; the flat feet that kept Albert Einstein out of the army; Nobel Prizewinner Enrico Fermi arriving for an appointment at the U.S. Navy Department and overhearing the desk officer tell his admiral, "There's a wop outside"; F.D.R.'s 13-word handwritten approval of atom bomb research beginning with "O.K."; the B-29 pilot who named a plane...
Walsh announced he planned to ask a court Monday, for the first time in his investigation, to delay a congressional grant of immunity to businessman Albert Hakim for the legal limit of 20 days...
...Castro had become something like the Algerian city of Oran that Albert Camus described in The Plague--a city separated from the outside world, where death and the threat of death hung over everyone. Very often they [AIDS victims] were athletic, ambitious, good-looking men who one day found a purple spot somewhere on their body. The purple spot was the nightmare that haunted the sleep of the Castro. Waking up in the morning, men would search their bodies for it; not finding it, they would search again the next day. Those who found it went...