Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...charge, the sentry fired three quick rounds from his AK-47 assault rifle. One of them whistled by Schatz's ear, a second went wide, and the third tore through Nicholson's chest as he turned. "I've been shot, Jess," the major gasped. Schatz grabbed a first-aid box and started running toward him but was forced back into the car by Soviet soldiers. It was another hour before a Soviet medic examined Nicholson; by then he was dead. The next day, an East German ambulance delivered Nicholson's body to a U.S. honor guard at the center...
...beginning of the 20th anniversary celebration of Jerusalem's Israel Museum, which last week placed them on display. They include the oldest cloth fragments and painted mask ever found: a life-size limestone human face decorated with bands of red and green. Also dug from the cave: basket and box fragments made of woven rushes waterproofed with asphalt, delicate thumbnail- size human heads and a rodent figurine, carved wood and bone tools, clay, stone and wooden beads and a human skull adorned with asphalt. Perhaps most remarkable are the fabrics, which are woven in eleven intricate designs, some resembling knotted...
...told Reagan that overpowering economic problems "conspire against democratic systems." Nonetheless, Alfonsin noted that in conversations with U.S. leaders, "the subject of Nicaragua and Central America will not be absent." He added, in words similar to those he used two days later at a meeting with TIME editors (see box), "I am convinced that it is through dialogue that we will be able to reach peace...
...doing this," recalls Riddles. But fools who rush on can sometimes beat the waiting wise men cold. She swept across the finish line 2 1/2 hours ahead of her nearest rival. What plans does Riddles have for her $50,000 prize? "Maybe Hawaii," said the champion snowbird. "And a box of biscuits for each of the dogs...
Writing an operatic Broadway show was considered box-office poison 30 years ago, but Bernstein was up to the task. "Chief problem (is) to tread the fine line between opera and Broadway, between realism and poetry, ballet and 'just dancing,' " noted the composer in his log the year before it opened. In Candide (1956), he had attempted such a synthesis, but that show was crippled by a bitter book that was vulgarized in its later revisions. With West Side Story, however, Bernstein's command of popular idioms, his soaring lyric gifts and technical skills got free rein in a show...