Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...friends to record an album of his own called In Search of the Turtle's Navel. From the outset, Ackerman groomed his disks for the baby boom generation, an audience that he felt was growing tired of rock. He recorded melodic albums like Pianist George Winston's Autumn, which cost just $1,720 to produce but has sold more than 500,000 copies. Some critics regard Windham Hill's silky sound as yuppie Muzak, but young professionals cannot get enough of it. Sales reached $20 million last year, up 230% from 1983. Ackerman now chums with Apple Computer Chairman Steven...
...government blamed the Trotskyites leaders and dupes who engaged in "conscious lying, conscious provocation conscious support for Fascism." The Comintern engineered a switch in leadership, from the revolutionary socialist Largo Caballero to the moderate Negrin According to Carr. "The revolutionary ardor so easily whipped up in the summer and autumn of 1936 to fire the struggle against Fascism, had given place to the cool calculations of diplomacy: Spain was a pawn on the Eruopean chess board...
...nickname Grom, the Russian word for thunder. One victim of his thunderbolts was Rolland Timerbayev, a senior political officer in the U.N. mission, who had the thankless task of supervising the mission's move from Park Avenue to East 67th Street. When Gromyko was shown the completed work that autumn, he spent more than half an hour stuck between floors in a faulty elevator. Finally freed, he decided that Timerbayev should have a new career. "Let him sit at the reception desk and keep an eye on the elevator to make sure it's working." The poor man occupied...
...Nielsen report cards, they chart the winners and losers, try to divine trends and make mid-course corrections. Judging from the replacement series joining the prime-time schedule this month (the traditional start of TV's "second season"), the networks have done their homework. Herewith, the major lessons of autumn...
...next 18 months, his condition continued to deteriorate. In June 1983 he called together some 220 members of the Schroeder clan for a reunion at a local club. Although Schroeder played master of ceremonies and joked with his relatives, the gathering was a kind of farewell party. By this autumn, the once vigorous man was largely bedridden, unable to walk 20 ft. without chest pain and shortness of breath. At night, he would awake gasping...