Word: eventers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Baltimore artist James Earl Reid created a life-size statue of a homeless family, he intended it for an event called the Pageant of Peace. Instead of bringing peace, however, the sculpture has sparked a bitter legal battle over the nation's copyright laws...
...Georgia-born soprano, said she would "reconsider" whether to sing in the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the Revolution. Patrice Chereau, who was to stage a new production of Mozart's Don Giovanni on opening night a year from now, said he considered his contract "annulled by this event." Conductor-composer Pierre Boulez resigned as vice president of the organization in charge of Parisian opera. Zubin Mehta of the New York Philharmonic said, "I will not go there under these circumstances." Herbert von Karajan, the grand old czar of the conducting world, declared that his plans for the Bastille...
Joseph P. Kennedy II announces his candidacy for the Cambridge City Council in hopes of being the first seasoned politician to garner the mayoral seat and the governorship of Massachusetts at the same time. In a related event, Robert Healy is appointed city manager for life...
...bread and circuses. The bread was the economic recovery, which created a sense of well-being among most members of the middle and upper classes. The circuses were mainly Reagan's performances as head of state, in which he could be as inspiring, consoling, reassuring or entertaining as the event demanded. After the Challenger disaster, for instance, his moving speech was a televised condolence call on the nation that helped distract attention from NASA's ongoing failures...
Through retailers, Coca-Cola is distributing 20 million pairs of cardboard glasses for the event. But unspectacled viewers will not see a blurry image, as they did with the '50s technology, used in movies like House of Wax. A new process, Nuoptix 3D, uses regular cameras and delivers a normal picture. The illusion of depth is created by different-color lenses in the glasses, which transmit the image 16 milliseconds slower to the right eye than to the left. One catch: to get the 3-D effect, there has to be constant motion on the screen. So even...