Word: planet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...name over your tongue. Julio Iglesias. Better get used to it, because if the "Spanish Sinatra" and his press agent, Superflack Warren Cowan, have anything to say about it, the name is about to become as familiar in the U.S. as it is just about everywhere else on the planet. Over the past 15 years, Iglesias, 39, has reportedly sold some 70 million albums worldwide. But you'd mention the name Julio Iglesias to most Americans and they'd say, "What?" At least until this past winter, when Julio started a U.S. publicity blitz, having paid Cowan...
...Happy Days, Adrian Zmed, 29, did commercials for Thorn McAn shoes and Flair pens before co-starring with William Shatner in ABC's T.J. Hooker, and Peter Barton, 26, was seen parading around in bathing suits in Penthouse mag azine before he became the visitor from a distant planet in NBC's The Powers of Matthew Star. Hexum also appeared in magazine ads before stepping into a TV show, the time-traveling Voyagers...
This notable record aside, the Reagan Administration last week hung a FOR SALE sign on the nation's four operational weather satellites as well as on Landsat 4, the satellite whose color views of the planet have provided invaluable information on crops, pollution and mineral deposits. The White House said the man-made orbiters could be operated more efficiently by private firms. The most probable buyer at a price of some $300 million: Comsat, the Communications Satellite Corp., which has expressed an interest in increasing its own satellite network...
...different kind of burnout looms Over the Commonwealth of the Democratic Americas in A.D. 2000, as Burgess plays with a well-known science fiction theme. An iron-heavy planet, code-named Lynx, threatens to vaporize the earth in this third and most complete tale. Valentine Brodie, a jittery, lustful, heavy-drinking young "future fiction" writer, is to accompany a space ark populated by an elite, computer-selected group of scientists and thinkers. They have been chosen to carry civilization to the next world. Brodie, like Freud, is fond of cigars, panatellas called Solzhenitsyns. He is also fond...
...federal action has started a considerable amount of controversy ever since the Administration declared its disapproval of the film "Acid Rain: Requiem or Recovery." "Acid from Heaven" and the Academy Award nominee "If You Love This Planet...