Word: performer
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ROGER ROSENBLATT has recently returned to TIME after an eight-year absence. We like to think of it as a mere hiatus--although while he was away he did manage to win Peabody and Emmy awards for his work on the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour on pbs, write and perform two one-man off-Broadway shows and contribute essays to such publications as the New York Times and the New Republic. He has also written a forthcoming memoir of Harvard in the 1960s. For his report on the TWA crash, Rosenblatt went to the town near the site, only 10 miles from...
...went to a student concert and saw B.B. King perform. Aside from being moved and awed by the music, I was bewildered to find only a handful of African Americans in the audience. When I asked an older gentleman why more in his community didn't attend, he put his hand on my shoulder and said solemnly, "Son, my people have been livin' the blues for 200 years; most see no sense spending their time listening to it." I agree with Isaac Tigrett's comment that it is a tragedy "the black community abandoned the blues and the audience became...
...direction of the explosion: a bomb inside the cargo department? an exploding engine? a missile from outside? "These people are so expert in their field that they can reassemble the plane with even the smallest pieces of metal," says Hannifin. Once the pieces are put together, FBI specialists perform tests on the plane parts to trace particles of outgassing. "Whether the explosion was a result of a TNT bomb or a synthetic Semtex explosive, a favorite of terrorist bombers, traces of chemicals and emissions residue can be detected on the parts," reports Hannifin. Once the voice data recorder...
Last December, scientists tried a new treatment for AIDS. They injected immune cells from a baboon into a patient, and then killed the baboon to perform an autopsy. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) went into action...
...came true. Little Gloria grew up to become Gloria Estefan, the popular singing star, with 45 million albums sold worldwide. Her latest recording, Destiny, is climbing the Billboard charts, and its featured single, Reach, has been designated as the official theme song of the Atlanta Olympics (she will perform it during the closing ceremonies). But singing star or no, Estefan, a 38-year-old mother of two, still has the unused portion of her round-trip ticket from Havana to Miami. Even as she chats, relaxed, in the two-story mansion she shares with her manager-husband Emilio on Star...