Word: eves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everything about mid-19th century Vienna was larger than life, from the caloric content of the pastries at Demel to the Emperor Franz Josef's mustaches. For its new Die Fledermaus, televised by PBS on New Year's Eve, the Metropolitan Opera has constructed outsize rooms in Johann Strauss's idealized waltzing city with such vivid realism that they could be sold today as luxury condominiums. Eisenstein's residence comes equipped with a spacious sun porch; Prince Orlofsky's pleasure palace boasts both a grand foyer and a palm-court refectory that make Maxim's look understated. When it comes...
...Iraqis staged heavy air raids on Iranian industrial centers and troop concentrations in the hope of heading off Tehran's long- awaited "final offensive," for which the Iranians have amassed an estimated 650,000 troops along the 730-mile front. According to Iraq, Iranian forces launched a Christmas Eve assault aimed at capturing the southern Iraqi city of Basra but were repulsed by Iraqi troops after suffering huge losses. The Iranians, on the other hand, claimed they had merely been trying to capture four Iraqi islands in the Shatt-al-Arab waterway and had inflicted heavy casualties...
...late Christmas Eve, the tree is up and listing at something less than 15 degrees. Not perfect, but acceptable. The kids will sleep until dawn. Insufficient but unavoidable. The pres- ents are wrapped, all but that one saved for last. A favorite. One that should be freshly assembled and brightly functioning when the kids charge into the room in . . . can it be just five hours...
...Dunster House, Marta Hoilman of Quincy House, Nora T. Jaskowiak of Winthrop House, Susanna L. Kim of Quincy House, Diane J. Klein of North House, Toby D. Kosowski of Quincy House, Yoon-Sun Lee of Lowell House, Arabella T. Leet of Winthrop House, Jessica E. Levin of Winthrop House, Eve C. Ostriker of Cabot House, Rachel J. Pastan of Dudley House, Deborah S. Porterfield of Winthrop House, Nara Schoenberg of Lowell House, and Katrina Z. Schwartz of Quincy House...
Then, on the eve of the doomed launch, 15 Morton-Thiokol engineers agreed--unanimously--that NASA shouldn't launch the Challenger. They were fearful that overnight sub-freezing temperatures at the Kennedy Space Center would prevent the O-rings from functioning properly. (Morton-Thiokol had never bothered to test the rings' performance at such low temperatures...