Word: wave
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Riding the great Laker wave of back-to-back NBA titles in 1987 and 1988, his fifth and sixth all told, Kareem returned this season for one last $3 million campaign at 41. But from November to January, he looked so soft and spent, the Los Angeles papers pleaded with him to stop. It seemed he was going around again just for the money (a stream of failed investments has him at public loggerheads with his agent) or maybe for the curtain calls at all the final stops (testimonials have included a motorcycle in Milwaukee and a chunk of Boston...
...will inevitably get to know a lot of people on the buses that cruise down the main streets of Nassau during the day. Life is easier in the Bahamas: there are no bus stops and it costs just $.50. To stop a passing bus just wave your hand at the driver. To get off, just yell out "Bus Stop." Sound simple...
South of the border, the cold wave brought a sudden end to unseasonably warm weather in the American West. In Great Falls, Mont., the temperature fell overnight from a high of 62 degrees to-10 degrees and then down to -34 degrees the next night. Over in Helena, the thermometer reading plummeted from 44 degrees to -6 degrees in just two hours. As far south as Valentine, Neb., a balmy high of 70 degrees turned to 0 degrees in ten hours...
...mighty Metropolitan Opera was born. But in fact the whole place nearly died during the 1950s. Its revival in recent years has depended heavily on presentations of theater and dance, along with stagings of operas by contemporary composers like Philip Glass and John Adams, in its annual Next Wave Festival of avant-garde work. But BAM is now convinced (perhaps by the conventionality of many productions at the Met and even at the New York City Opera) that there are further new ways to be tried...
ENVIRONMENT: A bitter cold wave heads east...