Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fondest memory: Senior dinner. It was a blast...
Florence's extraordinary Galleria degli Uffizi was rocked by a car bomb that also killed five people. The blast destroyed or damaged many works of art, including an important painting by the Venetian master Sebastiano del Piombo. "This was an attack in the style of the Mafia," said an Italian organized-crime investigator...
...whether it achieved anything for the murderers. Last week another bomb went off, next to the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence's principal museum. A stolen Fiat van packed with explosives blew up in the middle of the night next to the museum's west wing. The fireball and blast killed five people, destroyed museum archives and an important library near the Uffizi, weakened some of its ancient structure, and destroyed or damaged a number of works of art. Luckily, none of them were Botticellis, Michelangelos, Leonardos or Titians. Paintings by 17th century followers of Caravaggio (two by Bartolommeo Manfredi...
...person who seems to be able to unstuff the shirt of Vice President Al Gore. He gets so relaxed around her that at one of the marathon health-care task force meetings recently, he rubbed her aching neck. The neck notwithstanding, the Vice President says Tipper is "having a blast" in her job as mental-health adviser to the President's health-care task force, a slight exaggeration of the pleasure of spending late nights poring over options for psychiatric outplacement. But it's no exaggeration of her impact: she is the voice for mental health within the Administration. Says...
...civil rights movement was gathering momentum, and Lincoln got swept along in it. She was one of the first black women to wear her hair in a natural, Afro style, and her music underwent a similar transformation. In 1960 she sang on Roach's Freedom Now Suite, an urgent blast against America's homegrown version of apartheid. She also starred in Nothing But a Man, a poignant 1962 film about the civil rights movement that has just been rereleased...