Word: reykjavik
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. HALLDOR LAXNESS, 95, Iceland's most famous man of letters and 1955 Nobel prizewinner; in Reykjavik...
Bjork--her last name is Gudmundsdottir, but she rarely uses it--was born in Reykjavik in 1965. Her mother is a student of homeopathy and a teacher of the Japanese martial art aikido, her father is the head of Iceland's electricians' union. Bjork began making records in the '70s, before she entered her teens. In the late '80s she began to get international attention as the lead singer for the arty Icelandic rock band the Sugarcubes (Thor was the guitarist). In 1993 she left the band and released her first major-label solo album, Debut, a somewhat haphazard collection...
Rikki Dadason, Columbia (So., M/F) Reykjavik, Iceland--Scored two goals against both Seton Hall and Cornell; for one of those scores he made a great move through three defenders...
Rikki Dadason, Columbia (So., M/F) Reykjavik, Iceland--Scored two goals against Harvard in a 4-1 Lion win; has scored at least one goal in the last four games...
...cold war offered few grander pageants than summit meetings between the leader of the free world and the ruler of the Soviet empire. Whether the venue was Vienna, Washington, Moscow or a brooding house by the sea in Reykjavik, the sessions carried an air of high history, a sense that the fate of the earth depended on how these two men got along. As the leaders greeted each other, TV cameras carried the handshake around the world and commentators tried to read far-ranging implications in this smile or that frown...