Word: donnas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Raisa Gorbachev becoming the prima donna of perestroika? In rare coverage of the Soviet leader's wife, TASS quoted her last week as she spoke out on her husband's reforms and the role of women in world peace at a Moscow reception honoring International Women's Day. "Soviet people are putting into practice plans of revolutionary restructuring," the Soviet First Lady said. "We want our public life . . . to be worthy of a human being...
Like a prima donna basking in applause, the personal computer has long held center stage in the electronics world. But now the limelight is shifting to a more glamorous cousin: the workstation. Small enough to fit on a desktop, the workstation may look like a personal computer, but it acts more like a powerful mainframe. Says Charles Boesenberg, executive vice president of MIPS Computer Systems, one of the many players in the fiercely competitive workstation market: "What we've done is put the power and capability of an ocean liner into a speedboat...
Returning to the Northeastern lineup tonight is Captain Donna-Lynn Rosa, who has played in only six games this season due to an ankle injury...
Hair alone, on Broadway and through its many "tribes," or traveling companies, launched an army of performers who went on to mold the culture of the past two decades. Among them: the proto-punker Meat Loaf, Donna Summer, the Disco Queen of the late '70s, and Diane Keaton, who neatly embodied the postrevolutionary woman in Annie Hall. All ancestries link...
Even by the laid-back standards of Southern California, it was a slow-motion arrest. Just outside Malibu last week, highway patrol officer Donna Urqidi noticed that a slow-moving 1978 Volkswagen was creating a traffic jam and ordered its driver to pull off the road. But as Urqidi left her car, the VW took off. With lights flashing and sirens screaming, Urqidi and two other patrol cars set off in less than hot pursuit of the escaping vehicle. And followed. And followed. And followed. Through the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Diego counties. For four...