Word: atop
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...popular musician always changes for commercial and not for evolutionary reasons, also treats with bland ignorance the musical development of Bowie's last three albums. With Brian Eno's aid. Bowie built a triptych of immense proportions, charting sonic territories for a new generation of musicians to populace. Atop this musical canvas he has now added Scary Monsters like a vision of the Last Judgment, with synthesized demons crawling from between every...
Relations between Manning, 60, and the volatile Zuckerman, 43, had been tenuous from the start. The situation deteriorated when, after promising to stay away from editorial decisions, Zuckerman labeled himself chairman of the editorial board atop the magazine's July masthead. Insiders say he has been looking for a younger man all along to attract newer talent and give the 123-year-old monthly more "energy," which, he says, had been lacking. Manning, a former Under Secretary of State and TIME senior editor, leaves the Atlantic with four National Magazine Awards (1971-73 and 1979) and its highest circulation...
While world financial markets reacted nervously to the outbreak of war between Iran and Iraq last week, a new book that promised to be a survival manual for economic disaster was riding atop the bestseller lists. Its title: Crisis Investing: Opportunities and Profits in the Coming Great Depression (Stratford Press; $12.50). The book has already sold approximately 150,000 copies and turned its author, Douglas R. Casey, 34, into the newest high priest of financial gloom and doom...
...turning point was reached on Thursday, when Walesa suddenly made his dramatic appeal for a temporary halt to new strikes so that the negotiations could continue without an atmosphere of deepening crisis. After descending from atop the shipyard gate and conferring with the Jagielski team, he gave the government negotiators a signed statement declaring, "We are not for the widening of the strikes, which might push the country to the verge of collapse." The government, however, never published that message, presumably because it would have further enhanced Walesa's image and influence...
...Saturday Night Live, was that mistress of digression, Rosanne Rosanna-Dana? "Rosanne won't be covering the convention this year, perhaps in '84," said Gilda Radner at a fund raiser for Manhattan Democratic Congressional Candidate Mark Green. As soon as she popped out of the elevator atop the Empire State Building, she was set upon by a swarm of would-be Woodsteins under age 14 reporting for Children's Express. Well, as Rosanne might have known, it's always something...