Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still does, of course; nothing can change the harsh reality of Lennon's death. But Albert Goldman's controversial new biography offers unsettling evidence of how thoroughly John and Yoko distorted the messy details of their lives for public consumption. Apparently the mythmaking machinery was working overtime during the fall of 1980. For one thing, the much heralded marriage was on the rocks and headed for worse. Yoko told a confidant of her plans to divorce her husband after the work on Double Fantasy was completed: "I need to free myself of the Lennon name." Her tender contributions to that...
...Author Albert Goldman strips bare the best and brightest of the Beatles in his controversial biography The Lives of John Lennon...
Last week Dutch Virologist Albert Osterhaus announced he had located the cause: the same virus that produces distemper in dogs. Osterhaus believes the seals contracted the virus after contact with canines and spread it to one another by coughing. Pollution may also have contributed by lowering the animals' immunological defenses...
Last fall when the Supreme Court nomination of Douglas Ginsburg vanished in a puff of marijuana smoke, more than a dozen of his contemporaries, including Presidential Hopefuls Albert Gore and Bruce Babbitt, rushed forward to admit that they too had succumbed to reefer madness. Most confessions were formulaic: "I once tried pot as an experiment. I did not enjoy it, and I deeply regret my foolish behavior." Few ambitious baby boomers are willing to talk honestly about what they learned from '60s-era dabbling in soft drugs for fear of sounding as if they were about to check...
...Levenson '71 will join the Divinity School faculty this fall as the first full-time occupant of the Albert A. List Chair of Jewish Studies, which was established in 1981 but has been filled previously by visiting professors...