Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yorkers darted past one another in Rockefeller Center last week, many halted at the street-level windows of a camera gallery to gaze at a striking array of photographs: fireworks, an athlete in pain, the rings of Saturn, one space shuttle lifting off, another disintegrating in the air, a laughing Ronald Reagan, a gyrating Madonna, a city in flames. These and other dramatic images make up a new exhibit whose theme is TIME photojournalism of the 1980s...
...little wonder, then, that within hours of 1987A's discovery, an extraordinary array of scientific brainpower and hardware was brought to bear on the celestial phenomenon. Throughout the southern hemisphere (the supernova is not visible in northern skies), in South America, Australia and South Africa, telescopes of every size were focused on the bright newcomer in the Large Magellanic Cloud. NASA promptly ordered some of its satellites to do the same. On its way to a rendezvous with Neptune in 1989, the Voyager 2 spacecraft pointed its two ultraviolet-light detectors at the supernova. The Solar Max satellite turned...
Sofer, the son of a noted rabbi, is a silver-haired bachelor known for squiring an array of beautiful women around Jerusalem. He began building his fortune in the 1970s by discovering oil in the Sinai peninsula, then racked up more profits by speculating in the wildly bullish Tel Aviv stock market of that period. Sofer today maintains a suite in the Jerusalem Hilton, which he bought in 1982 for $18 million in partnership with a group of U.S. investors, among them Fort Worth Oilman Louis Barnett. The SEC claims that Sofer shared his illegal stock tips with Barnett...
From 2 to 4 p.m., spectators can watch an array of traditional Chinese dances such as the Lotus Dance, the Sword Dance, the Mongolian Dance and the Ribbon Dance during which a dancer nearly choked herself last year, organizers of the fete said...
...Tower commission will help sort out the bewildering array of activities involved in the Iran-contra affair, some of which may have been illegal, others merely unwise. Here are the key subjects to look for when the report is released this week...