Word: superstars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meeting of the American Chemical Society in Dallas into the scientific equivalent of a championship basketball game. The Dallas conference packed in some 7,000 chemists hoping for what society executive director John Crum called "the experience of a lifetime." The crowd was there to hear chemistry's new superstar, B. Stanley Pons, describe and defend the experiment that had catapulted him and British colleague Martin Fleischmann to instant fame only a few weeks earlier. Pons and Fleischmann claim to have produced controlled nuclear fusion in a jar at room temperature. If Pons, a professor at the University of Utah...
...WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACE (ABC, March 19 and 20, 9 p.m. EST). Oprah Winfrey, in the days before Optifast, plays one of seven women enduring the trials of tenement life in this two-part TV movie. The talk-show superstar was also co- executive producer...
FloJo just didn't pop up and win three gold medals and a silver in the 1988 Olympics. She missed making the 1980 team by a couple of spots. In 1984, she won the silver medal in the 200 meters and was ready to become a superstar. In 1988, she proved she was the fastest woman in the world, breaking two records...
Explaining the marketing strategy behind new chains, Jay Chiat, San'wiches main backer and the superstar executive of the imagemaking advertising agency Chiat/Day, insists that "it's all a matter of the ADI." That is no palate- tingling condiment, but rather the area of dominant influence, or the geographical area that a TV station predominantly reaches (and thus the potential audience for each commercial). That is why, for example, Marriott since June has opened 14 branches of Allie's in San Diego (where San'wiches is also being tested). Only after such saturation will Chairman J.W. Marriott Jr. convert more...
Imitation, it has often been said, is the sincerest form of Hollywood. So movie moguls are now hot to remake Women on the Verge, with perhaps Jane Fonda, Sally Field or Goldie Hawn playing the main role -- taken in the original by Almodovar's house superstar Carmen Maura -- of a TV actress whose lover has just moved out. This week Almodovar goes to Los Angeles in hopes of picking up a Golden Globe statuette. Women on the Verge has already won the Felix, Europe's highest movie prize. And on Academy Award night, Felix may find an odd-couple mate...