Word: fusions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. AL HANSEN, 67, 1960s visual artist who pioneered the avant-garde fusion of multimedia, music, homemade movies and staged events known as "happenings"; of a heart attack; in Cologne, Germany...
...asked no questions about the confused policy that had him flying over Bosnia in the first place. When properly combined, three volatile elements generate American celebrity: the media, the public and the spinmeisters who manipulate them. In the case of Scott O'Grady, the three achieved nuclear fusion. The danger was that in the process, a likable, humble man could be consumed...
Astronomers have finally found what appears to be a brown dwarf, a long-sought heavenly object that until now has existed only in theory. Brown dwarfs are not quite big and hot enough to ignite the nuclear-fusion reaction that would make them shine as full-fledged stars. They probably account for some of the universe's "missing" matter...
...have suggested that jets of matter must be shooting out of these still forming stars. Only by slinging some of the incoming matter away as a counterbalance could the protostars avoid going into a superfast spin. When a new star finally becomes massive enough to ignite the nuclear-fusion reaction that makes it shine, the resulting outward blast of energy would stop any more matter from falling in, the jets would turn off, and the remaining dusty disk would start clumping together to form planets...
...picking, Delta blues and slide guitar. His most recent album, South of I-10 (referring to the interstate that bisects Louisiana), is even better. Creole Angel, for example, features a Zydeco-like repeated riff that builds to an overpowering climax. Landreth's variety of accents embraces the joyous cultural fusion that is Cajun country. Says he: "Man, this is the place to be." It's hard to disagree. --With reporting by David E. Thigpen/New York