Word: auge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forms do not usually emerge with such neat birth dates, but consider Aug. 1, 1981. On that day a cable channel called MTV made its debut, offering a round-the-clock barrage of music videos -- short films set to rock songs and produced by record companies to promote their performers. These imaginative, visually arresting clips soon caught on; rock music was suddenly something to look at, not just listen to. Such performers as Duran Duran and Cyndi Lauper rode to success on them; top Hollywood directors, including John Landis and Brian De Palma, tried their hand at making them...
...becoming the first American woman in space. Now Astronaut Sally Ride, 36, is set to explore the academic frontier. Her new mission: science fellow at the Center for International - Security and Arms Control, a think tank at Stanford University. Ride's switch to the private sector, effective Aug. 15, comes in the wake of her divorce from Astronaut Steven Hawley and reports that the ambitious spacewoman had become restless at NASA. "It was going to be a long time until she flew again," confides a colleague, "and she wasn't particularly turned on even by that." Speaking to reporters...
...Bowen demonstrated in his first Ethics story (on AIDS, Feb. 2) and in his discussion of the legal views of Attorney General Edwin Meese III (ESSAY, Aug. 11, 1986), he does not shrink from judgment. "I'm no holier-than-thou type," says Bowen, "but it has been my experience that the best guys I've known in life have had profound ethical concerns." At the top of his list of ethically minded people is his late mother, the prominent biographer Catherine Drinker Bowen, whose books chronicled the lives of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., President John Adams...
...Gestapo came for Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross at the Carmelite convent in Echt, the Netherlands, on Aug. 2, 1942. She and her older sister Rosa, who was living at the convent, were given five minutes to pack. Within a week the two women were at the gates of the Auschwitz death camp in Poland. They died in the gas chamber on Aug. 9. In words that today ring with heroism, Sister Teresa told Rosa in Echt, "Come. We are going for our people." In those words rest the very paradox of Sister Teresa: Were her people Jews...
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