Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That female sigh reverberating across the land was for rock's working-class hero, born to run and now saddled for the marriage stakes. Bruce Springsteen, 35, is settling down with his sweetheart of six months, Julianne Phillips, 25, a model turned actress from Lake Oswego, Ore. He and the blue-eyed brunet beauty will wed this week in a nuptial Mass at her hometown church (both are Roman Catholics, neither has been married before). "We're very proud to have Bruce Springsteen in our family," bubbled the rocker's mother-in-law-to-be. "We just couldn...
...from Williams College, Ph.D. from the University of Texas, a law degree from Harvard and a stint as chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. According to Terry Hartle, education specialist for the American Enterprise Institute, when Bennett's posting was announced, it was "greeted with a sigh of relief by the educational community, who feared a hatchet man might be appointed." But the community soon learned that relief would not be spelled...
Though purists may sigh at this bow to the mass audience, A&E is starting to make its mark with some notable program events. Last fall it offered the U.S. premiere of John Schlesinger's An Englishman Abroad, an affectionately wrought drama based on Actress Coral Browne's chance encounter with Soviet Spy Guy Burgess (played with world-weary charm by Alan Bates). In January A&E telecast the first modern public performance of Mozart's "lost" Symphony in A Minor, with Tom Hulce (an Oscar nominee for Amadeus) serving as an agreeable host...
Ever the gambler, Edwards had offered any takers 8 to 5 that he would not be indicted. To cover his bet, he also offered 2-to-1 odds that if indicted, he would not be convicted. He greeted the indictments philosophically: "I don't cry, I don't sigh; this will be over with by and by." He has hired former Watergate Prosecutor James Neal as his defense attorney. "You're not ever going to see a fight like this," he vows. "There is no way that any evidence can be produced to sustain or substantiate the tortuous allegations made...
...Wall Street investors, 1984 ended with a weary sigh rather than the tooting of horns and tossing of confetti. Moneymen conducted more business than last year but made a lot less money. The New York Stock Exchange traded a record volume of 23.1 billion shares, a 6.9% increase over 1983. Stock prices, though, declined for the first time in three years. The Dow Jones industrial average closed on New Year's Eve at 1211.57, a drop of 47 points, or 3.7%, from 1983. Last year had begun with bull-market bravura that sent the Dow to a peak...