Word: offing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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--What better way to toast the 200th anniversary of Alexander Pushkin's birth than with a Pushkin vodka and a box of Pushkin chocolates? Perhaps with a visit to Yakutia, which touted itself as the place where Pushkin's friends were exiled.
--As well as by concerts, the week of Chopin's death was marked by mimes, jazz interpretations, and--yikes!--the premier of Billy Joel's first classical piece, the Chopin-inspired Reverie.
--For the sesquicentennial of Goethe's birth, 250 illuminated busts of the German poet were lined up in a meadow in downtown Weimar. Fans could buy stockings imprinted with his lyrics or a vibrator bearing his likeness. An exhibition of his drawings was hung at Buchenwald.
TRANSFERRED. THE PANAMA CANAL, 50-mile engineering feat, shipping lane and cruise-ship highlight; after 96 years of U.S. control; to Panama. At a ceremonial hand-over, Jimmy Carter, who brokered the transfer treaty in 1977, told Panama's President Mireya Moscoso, "It's yours."
RETIRING. CHARLES SCHULZ, 77, Peanuts creator, whose angst-ridden Charlie Brown has been a staple of funny pages for nearly 50 years; on Jan. 4; because of colon cancer (see story, page 146).