Word: note
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Critics of the test note that the magazine quaffed the fresh-tasting stuff from the Sierra Nevada snowmelt rather than the sometimes foul-smelling brew from the groundwater basins of the San Fernando Valley. While the report has gratified local officials, it has perturbed others. Says Sy Linden, co-owner of a Santa Monica appliance store: "This story is killing my water-purifier business...
...Harvard men's basketball team concluded the pre-season portion of its 1986-'87 schedule on a positive note earlier this week by defeating Holy Cross...
...Frances, Stefanie Powers hits one note loud and often: she speaks nearly all her lines in a sort of loony, distracted haze. Though her performance lacks shadings, she creates a memorable monster. Doug McKeon and Corey Parker are at once scary and pathetic as her sons. E.G. Marshall, John Wood and Frances Sternhagen do nice turns in support...
...promise of democracy without bloodshed, all too rare in the past, the Philippine revolution also held up a candle of hope in some of the world's darker corners. Moderate South Africans, for example, could take some heart from the success of civil disobedience; nor could they fail to note the victory of a woman who was once her jailed husband's ambassador to the world, much as Winnie Mandela works in the name of her imprisoned husband Nelson. In overthrowing Marcos, moreover, Aquino helped erase a whole volume of shibboleths. She showed that politics could...
...grim reign of Adolf Hitler in Europe had one ironic benefit for the U.S. Among the emigres, mostly Jewish, who fled to these shores to escape him were designers, filmmakers and composers who would sound a new note in the American arts, one that kept ringing long after the war ended -- names like Mies van der Rohe, Billy Wilder and Arnold Schoenberg. Alfred Eisenstaedt was among them. When he set down in New York City in 1935, Eisenstaedt, "Eisie" to his friends, brought with him a loose-limbed working method that would eventually set the tone for all of American...