Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...training for races like the Alcatraz Challenge. This is a particularly gruesome example of the newly popular self-torture called the triathlon: a 1.5-mile swim in cold and swirling water from San Francisco's Alcatraz Island to Aquatic Park, a 20-mile bicycle trek that crosses the Golden Gate Bridge, and finally a 14.5-mile run from Mill Valley to Stinson Beach across Mount Tamalpais...
...television programs do not die; they go into syndication. M*A*S*H, which left the CBS schedule in February after eleven years of increasing popularity, is syndicated to hundreds of independent stations around the U.S.; it can be seen ten times weekly in New York City alone. Golden oldies like The Honeymooners and I Love Lucy have been in syndication for more than a decade. There is big money in syndicating such shows. The independent stations pay top rates for them to cash in on advertising revenues. After syndication fees are deducted, many of the dollars that flow back...
...infant is acquiring the important sense of its separate identity, and even an understanding of what Piaget called "object permanence," the realization that an object hidden from sight is still there. It begins to develop fears of strangers and of separation from its parents. At twelve months, the golden age, the baby has begun to walk and talk, and knows that the whole world awaits. Sometimes, clinging to a chair, waving a spoon in a fist, the one year old will throw back its head and crow in sheer delight...
...friend Salvador Dali transfigured their fantasies in 1929 into one of the first surrealist films, Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog), a work of bizarre images including a man slashing a woman's eyeball with a razor. In 1930, L'Age d'Or (The Golden Age), with its brutal attacks on Roman Catholicism and bourgeois morality, established the ideological foundation for most of Buñuel's later films. A vehement antifascist, he left Spain in 1938, later won a Cannes Festival Grand Prix for Viridiana (1961) and an Academy Award for his scathing The Discreet...
...Diet voted to create 19 more research and industrial centers around the country. Construction of these "technopolises" could stretch into the 21st century. But by then, Japan may have closed much of the gap with the West in scientific creativity. -By Frederic Golden. Reported by Thomas Levenson/Tokyo