Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...death in 1975, Dmitri Shostakovich was regarded by many Western critics as the quintessential Communist Party musical apparatchik. The thin- lipped, bespectacled composer presented a bland face to the world, periodically bowing his head to the artistic dictates of Soviet authority and writing propagandistic tub thumpers to cloak his occasional forays into modernism. Or so it seemed...
...Joseph and her guardian angel. After three days the child is guided home, but in that time 30 years have passed. Mili is unchanged; her mother has dramatically aged. The conclusion is freighted with mystery, amplified by Sendak's floating vistas and romantic palette. Although themes of death and resurrection haunt the narrative, its illustrator removes any chill with fleeting allusions to Mozart, the Seven Dwarfs, unfolding flowers and amiable canines...
After the blaze was extinguished, fire fighters discovered two smoldering craters, 30 ft. to 40 ft. wide and 7 ft. deep. The death toll in the worst fire-fighting disaster in Kansas City's history: all six of the fire fighters who first arrived at the scene. Investigators suspect arsonists set the fire that ignited more than 20 tons of ammonium nitrate, an explosive used at the construction site. But their search for clues and a motive will be no easy task. The explosion was so destructive that it may have obliterated crucial evidence...
That is a message that many Americans obviously need to heed. Although the heart-attack death rate in the U.S. has fallen roughly 3% a year since 1967, too many people are hanging on to the bad old ways. In a report last July, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop warned Americans that they are still consuming too much saturated fat and that their cholesterol counts are too high. A basic problem is that many Americans -- 79%, according to a Louis Harris poll published earlier this year -- do not know what their cholesterol levels should...
...still limps. Despite plastic surgery, her nose is crushed and her upper lip is permanently split. But when she testified last week in a Manhattan courtroom against her former live-in lover, who is accused of beating to death their illegally adopted six-year-old daughter, Hedda Nussbaum spoke in a firm, clear voice. What emerged was a bizarre tale of violence, drug abuse, isolation and mind control inflicted by disbarred lawyer Joel Steinberg. Asked why she never escaped from Steinberg's thrall, Nussbaum had a simple reply: "I worshiped...