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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nobel Prize for Physics (and probably Peace as well), untold riches from licensing the process and a place in history alongside Einstein and slightly above Edison. Any scientist who confirmed the claim would get part of the resulting avalanche of research dollars, and anyone who shot it down would gain acclaim within the scientific community...
...Frank, who writes his Prudent Speculator in Santa Monica, Calif., took a turn slowly, slowly in the wind when his portfolio of recommended stocks dropped 50% in 1987. He recovered with a 49% gain last year, but the crowd may string him up yet again. "People think too much about the market," he tells his audience, comfortable in the subtle distinction that what he thinks about roughly 14 hours a day is companies, not market fluctuations. He espouses the solid, old-fashioned idea of buying good companies cheap and sticking with them long-term, with the added fillip of using...
Reni's image of the young Baptist, modeled to the nth degree of sensitivity, warm against the cold blues and dark greens of the framing landscape, seems about to speak; and to look at the landscape background is to realize what English artists a century later, particularly Gainsborough, would gain from Reni. He had an inspired sense of the mechanics of composition, as Nessus and Dejanira proves: an airy ballet on the theme of rape, in which every billow and facet of the drapery seems to operate as form...
...Crimson is seeded second in the 10-team field and must hold that spot in order to gain a berth to the NCAA Champioship tourney, held May 19-21 in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...near the thrones of power in Britain and America, that the games could be pubic without ever going public. Enter Profumo (Ian McKellen), who in his high-domed hairdo looks like a samurai of probity. Jack is an indiscretion waiting to happen. He has so little furtive pleasure to gain, and so much reputation to put at risk, that his dalliance has the lurid fatalism of a soap opera. Then Christine snitches to the press, and domestic melodrama stokes national tragedy...