Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NOTEBOOK: Neilson and Bailliere won't be making the Aspen trip...Injured freshmen Brita Lind and Julie Trotman should be ready to play Jan. 5, when Harvard battles Dartmouth in Hanover, N.H. Crimson, 7-1 at Bright Center Vermont 0-0-1--1 Harvard...
...comets are simply hurtling hunks of ice, where do they come from, and how do they get here? The same year that Whipple spun his theory of cosmic snowballs, Dutch Astronomer Jan Oort conceived of a kind of enormous warehouse for comets, which would come to be known as the Oort Cloud. Basing his calculations on the shape of cometary orbits and the number of new comets observed each year, Oort postulated that the cloud surrounds the solar system in a vast region 30,000 to 100,000 astronomical units from the sun (one AU is about 93 million miles...
With two hours of pregame activity, roughly 3 1/2 hours of football and a 30- minute postgame wrapup, Super Bowl Sunday, Jan. 26, promises to be another marathon day of TV viewing. But NBC has come up with a new gimmick to ease the strain. Halfway through the pregame show, at around 4 p.m. E.S.T., the network's analysts will lapse into unaccustomed silence for one minute. As a clock onscreen ticks off the seconds, viewers will be able to race to the refrigerator or bathroom without missing any of the action -- or the commercials...
...Rembrandt's The Man with the Golden Helmet, one of the most famous and most majestic portraits ever painted, now turns out to be not by Rembrandt at all. It is not a fake or a forgery, says Jan Kelch, curator of Dutch and Flemish paintings in West Berlin's Staatliche Museum, but rather "an independent original in its own right, with its own independent worth." But what is its independent worth if Rembrandt's masterpiece is not by Rembrandt? Though people who estimate such things promptly lowered its theoretical value from 20 million marks ($8 million) to about...
Henry Moore: The Reclining Figure: The Bakalar Sculpture Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, through Jan...