Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WASHINGTON--A Navy helicopter on a routine ferry flight crashed into the Persian Gulf yesterday as it was nearing the USS LaSalle for a landing, leaving one man dead and three missing, the Pentagon said...
...bass three weeks before the season began. Still later, he insisted on a blood transfusion that would allow him to tour with the chorus. "He practically had to be held up," recalls Perry George, a member of the chorus, "but he sang radiantly." Two months later Lo Presti was dead at 33. Now George has AIDS. "It's been -- how do I say this gracefully? -- the best thing ever to happen to the interpretive powers in my singing. When you're told you have a year and a half to live, such things as sunsets, dahlias and solo singing recitals...
...bargain-basement suits and button-down, short-sleeve shirts, Dukakis offers the Democrats neither charisma nor quixotic causes. Instead, he is running as the Lee Iacocca of state government: the Governor who brought the Massachusetts economy back from the dead. True, a Harvard study concluded that, at most, state government "may have helped sustain the growth once it began." And even Frank Keefe, Dukakis' secretary of administration and finance, claims only that the Governor's policies are responsible for 20% of the drop in state unemployment...
Madonna gives a concert that raises $400,000 for AIDS research. The same night, friends of Playwright Charles Ludlam, dead at 44, pay tribute to the "funniest man in America." AIDS has decimated the artistic community. Now artists are fighting back. They write AIDS plays and songs, give benefit concerts and, for those with the disease, face the future with grit and gallantry...
Even to ask whether the cold war is over is a bit like asking, "Is God dead?" Given the brutal nature of the Soviets' aggression and their willingness to impose totalitarian systems around the world, the question can seem blasphemous -- and worse, naive. The cold war, after all, describes not just the interaction between two powerful nations but a holy struggle between two starkly opposed value systems. The phrase, first used in a speech by Bernard Baruch in 1947, implies that the relationship is, in essence, a war -- not just a rivalry between great powers but a struggle that would...