Word: prize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences intended to signal its disapproval of the Reagan Administration's economic programs, it could not have picked a better week to do so, or a better man to deliver the message. Robert Solow, 63, who last week won the 1987 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science, is a liberal academic who has never hidden his disdain for Reaganomics. And when the Brooklyn-born professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology stepped before the cameras to acknowledge his award, he needed little prompting to lay into the policies that led to last week's crash...
MIDNIGHT. Buried Child, Sam Shepard. "There ain't nothing a man can't do," we're told in this Pulitzer Prize winning drama. Infanticide, self-multilation, heavy-drinking, cornhusking. One-hundred proof Halloween horror-potion. And who couldn't cuddle up to a play whose most quoted line is, "You ain't never seen a bitch eat her puppies?" Hello, my name is Sam Shepard. This is my closet. And these are my skeletons...
...medal is not always the kiss of death. The 1971 prize boosted West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and his policy of Ostpolitik, aimed at improving relations with Eastern Europe. Oscar Arias Sanchez can only hope that this year's award will have an equally beneficial effect...
...Wilson won a Pulitzer Prize for Talley's Folly and Broadway acclaim for Fifth of July, companion pieces set on the same Missouri homestead. In Burn This, he reaches for a less sentimental key. But onstage the louder voice belongs to John Malkovich, a rising star (Death of a Salesman with Dustin Hoffman, Paul Newman's film of The Glass Menagerie) doing an Actors Studio- style star turn. As the intrusive brother, he slams in, bounces off walls, spews a stream of unapologetic profanity, all the while wearing -- at the actor's insistence -- a shoulder-length black wig that brings...
...separate gulf attacks, Iranian missiles hit U. S.- owned and U. S.- registered ships. -- Costa Rica' s Arias wins the Nobel Prize for Peace...