Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Joining Heaney as winners this year are heart transplant pioneer Michael E. DeBakey, primatologist Jane Goodall, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee and Netscape co-founder James H. Clark...
Manson is not, of course, the first to wring fame out of ghoulish theater. Pioneer shock rockers Alice Cooper and Kiss made millions daring audiences to share the humor behind their fright masks. But Manson's act is shorn of all humor. What's left is lurid spectacle that conveys little meaning beyond its shock value...
Someone called him the Elvis of sport because he was a crossover pioneer, sexy and gorgeous, who forced the public to rethink its view of his form of entertainment. But there was more to Muhammad Ali than his amazing cunning in the ring; more than his reputation as the most charming showboater in boxing history, with an impish rhyming wit that had the power of both butterfly and bee. As Spike Lee says of Ali in the enthralling new documentary When We Were Kings, "He fused politics and sport...
JACK LALANNE, 82; SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIFORNIA; Fitness Pioneer...
DIED. JOSEPH QUINLAN, 71, pioneer of the right-to-die movement who led a successful legal crusade to allow his adopted daughter Karen Ann Quinlan to "die with dignity" after she slipped into a coma in 1975; of cancer; in Wantage, New Jersey...