Word: award
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...performance on the chess circuit, Deep Thought has won the prestigious Fredkin Intermediate Prize for Computer Chess, a $10,000 award set up for the first computer to achieve a grand-master rating. The machine, designed by scientists at Carnegie Mellon University, now has 2,551 points on the U.S. Chess Federation scale, making it one of the top 40 players in the U.S. and putting it within sight of world champion Gary Kasparov, who is rated at about...
...Midnight's Children (1981), created an international sensation. The book hinged on an inspired conceit: that 1,001 babies born across the subcontinent on the stroke of Indian independence had acquired magical powers to communicate with one another. Midnight's Children won the Booker Prize, Britain's most coveted award for fiction, and sold roughly half a million copies worldwide...
James Woods is not exactly an obscure actor. The man has actually had an Academy Award nomination, among other show-accolades. But compared with every Tom, Jack and Dustin, he is truly one of the unsung actors in movies today...
...professional performing troupe that would also serve as teachers. A second was to provide a major new entrant to the then burgeoning regional-theater movement. Those goals were met: the conservatory today trains 70 actors in an academically accredited, three-year program, and the company won a 1979 Tony Award for regional excellence. But an equal concern for Ball, it seemed, was to ensure his own longevity, and that effort not only eventually doomed his tenure but nearly destroyed what he had built as well. A.C.T. remains burdened with debt, compounded by the prospect of up to $10 million...
...nearly 18,000, and ticket sales provide almost 75% of the $8.1 million annual budget. Unfortunately, what appears onstage is no guarantee of continued enthusiasm. August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone, winner of the 1988 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best play, was daringly reconceived by director Claude Purdy rather than simply copied from the Broadway production. In almost every case, however, the changes dissipated the power of Wilson's poetic drama of rootlessness and religious obsession among blacks in a Pittsburgh boardinghouse...