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La Fura Dels Baus, Spanish experimental theater company, plans to perform latest work, F@ust, Version 3.0 as part of upcoming Lincoln Center Festival at New York State Theater; photos (M)
Beijing Resumes Crackdown Just a week after President Clinton returned from a state visit to China, human right advocates said that Beijing authorities have arrested nine dissidents who had tried to set up an opposition party. Page 3. Car Strike: What's at Stake A strike against two General Motors auto parts factories has proved hard to settle as the company and the union continue to raise the stakes, making it harder for either side to compromise. News analysis, page 18.
As soccer reaches apogee with World Cup final between France and Brazil in Paris, game remains mystery to vast numbers of Americans; sports experts say soccer's biggest marketing blunder in America has been to try to infiltrate culture through children--giving soccer deep association with very things people go to sports bars to escape; photo (M)
Comment on two upcoming novels about fashion, models and celebrity: Model Behavior by Jay McInerney and Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis; cover photos (S)
Extreme dearth of women in field of cosmetic surgery discussed; women now comprise 46 percent of medical students, but only about four percent of all board-certified plastic surgeons in US, even though 89 percent of cosmetic-surgery patients are female; Dr Jane Petro cites 'Pygmalion angle,' pointing to large number of surgeons who end up, in second marriages, to former patients; long and intense training also makes it very difficult to balance work with family life; photo; hostile environment created by male surgeons in general also noted (M) plastic surgery training eight years after graduating from medical school, says long intense training makes it impossible to balance work and family or husband; hostile environment created by male surgeons in general also noted; photo of Dr Michelle
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 8, 1998, covering July 12, 1998.
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1998Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Canadian basketball player[†]
Shaivonte Aician Gilgeous-Alexander, also known by his initials SGA, is a Canadian professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
1998Jimmy Driftwood, American singer-songwriter and banjo player (born 1907)[†]
James Corbitt Morris, known professionally as Jimmy Driftwood or Jimmie Driftwood, was an American folk-style songwriter and musician, most famous for his songs "The Battle of New Orleans" and "Tennessee Stud". Driftwood wrote more than 6,000 folk songs, of which more than 300 were recorded by various musicians.
1998Arkady Ostashev, Soviet/Russian scientist and engineer (born 1925)[†]
Arkady Ilyich Ostashev was a Soviet and Russian scientist, engineer - mechanic in the former Soviet space program, working on as a designer many of rocket propulsion and control system of Soviet satellites. He was a participant in the launch of the first artificial satellite of the Earth and the first cosmonaut, candidate of technical sciences, docent, laureate of the Lenin (1960) and State (1979) Prizes, one of the leading managers of work in the field of experimental development of rocket technology OKB-1, personal pensioner of republican significance, student and interpersonal relationship of Sergei Korolev.
1998Serge Lemoyne, Canadian painter (born 1941)[†]
Serge Lemoyne was a Canadian artist from Quebec. He worked as a performance artist as well as creating paintings, assemblages and prints. Lemoyne explored themes such as the environment, technology, and social justice. Lemoyne's work was exhibited in Canada and internationally, and he received numerous awards throughout his career. He died in 1998 at the age of 57.
1998The Ulster Volunteer Force attacked a house in Ballymoney, County Antrim, Northern Ireland with a petrol bomb, killing the Quinn brothers.[†]
The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) is an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group based in Northern Ireland. Formed in 1965, it first emerged in 1966. Its first leader was Gusty Spence, a former Royal Ulster Rifles soldier from Northern Ireland. The group undertook an armed campaign of almost thirty years during The Troubles. It declared a ceasefire in 1994 and officially ended its campaign in 2007, although some of its members have continued to engage in violence and criminal activities. The group is a proscribed organisation and is on the terrorist organisation list of the United Kingdom.
In 1998, the world population was approximately 6,007,066,690 people[†]