Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...treated to more than fall fashions. Among the Kamalis and Calvins were full-page ads for cigarettes, liquor and laundry products, none of which can be ordered by mail or bought in one of Bloomingdale's 14 locations. Other department stores like Marshall Field are considering the advantages. Says Milton Kaplan, president of Catalogue Advertising Sales, which sells Bloomingdale's space to clients: "It's the next large medium on the horizon...
Indeed, Discovery was turned 180 degrees in the wrong direction, with the mirror facing the darkness of space instead of the laser beam coming from earth. "We slipped up," said Flight Director Milton Heflin. Human error had ruined the first space shuttle experiment in President Reagan's $26 billion Star Wars research program last week. Mission Control at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, it turned out, had given the astronauts the wrong numbers to feed into Discovery's computerized guidance system. Rather than pointing down at a 9,994-ft. mountain, the shuttle turned upward, searching for a nonexistent...
...principle of making the punishment fit the crime has rarely been taken so literally. After Neurosurgeon Milton Avol, 61, was found guilty of failing to correct repeated violations of health and fire-safety codes in the ramshackle, rodent-infested apartment buildings he owns, Los Angeles Municipal Judge Veronica Simmons McBeth sentenced him to spend 30 days in a public cell and 30 days in a private one: a grungy one-room apartment in one of his own buildings...
...that one song, written for the 1914 show The Girl from Utah, Kern virtually created the prototype for the modern American ballad. From that moment (when his music was already entrancing a couple of teenagers named Richard Rodgers and George Gershwin) to this (when Composers Stephen Sondheim and Milton Babbitt have written appreciations of his work), Kern's revolution has continued unsilenced. It should last for another hundred years, and maybe for as long as anyone can carry a tune...
DIED. Selma Diamond, 64, raspy-voiced comic actress and comedy writer who played the world-weary, chain-smoking bailiff on TV's Night Court; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles. Diamond was a top writer for Perry Como, Milton Berle and Sid Caesar and a playfully sardonic TV talk-show guest. Her films include It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), My Favorite Year (1982), Twilight Zone -- The Movie...