Word: prize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...publication of Isaac Bashevis Singer's Collected Stories prompted critical applause, commercial success and a nagging uneasiness among the author's devoted readers. Might this summing-up of a life's work, coming from a man whose career had already been decorated with a Nobel Prize, be an indication that Singer, then 74, was thinking of slowing down? In retrospect, ! of course, it would have made more sense and wasted less time to be concerned that birds would stop singing or the world suddenly grow sensible and dull. Forces of nature do not stop voluntarily. Sure enough, a book...
Most important, Bochco has demonstrated that boat-rocking can win an audience -- one, moreover, made up of the sort of young, upscale viewers that advertisers prize most. Bochco creates TV shows for people who don't watch TV. No producer of the 1980s has been more influential. "He's shown that there's an audience for excellence," says David Milch, a former Hill Street writer and now an executive producer of Beverly Hills Buntz. "In so doing, he has increased the possibilities for everyone...
...such risks, two bills currently before Congress call for a moratorium on granting animal patents until the issues can be examined more completely. Farm groups, for example, feel genetically altered livestock could raise production costs, since farmers might have to pay royalty fees to biotech concerns every time their prize livestock give birth. Says Howard Lyman, an analyst for the National Farmer's Union: "This is an economic issue...
More than 1000 bikers from the U.S. and Canada attend the blessing--and Booth has been there among them to photograph the procedings for the past four years. Last year, the bikers gave a prize to the motorcyclist who traveled the farthest to reach the New Hampshire event...
...when straight comedy fails, there are always "gimmicks." Take, for example, the last Veritones concert when Nobel Prize winner Baird Professor of Science Dudley R. Herschbach served as master of ceremonies...