Word: 1970s
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...power of the directorial debut of Ryan Murphy, best known as the creator of the groundbreaking television series “Nip/Tuck,” an adaptation of Augusten Burroughs’ bestseller. Newcomer Joseph Cross takes his first leading role as Augusten, a boy growing up in the 1970s with two feuding parents. A young Augusten develops a close relationship with his mother Deirdre (Annette Bening, “American Beauty”). She is a struggling poet who only wants respect from her peers, and her alcoholic husband Norman—played with the perfect mixture of exhaustion...
Cohousing, which debuted in Denmark in the 1970s, is a semi-communal concept in which separate living units--usually attached condo-style--are clustered around a "common house," which, at the very least, has a kitchen, a dining room and a third area for gatherings and activities. The idea is to bring back a time when neighbors were an integral part of one another's lives, sharing meals and recreation--and providing companionship and a helping hand. That concept has been co-opted recently by older people looking for a way to combine their autonomy with access to a supportive...
...Still, credit cards have been popular since the 1970s and America hasn't collapsed yet, so Clarke Caywood, an associate professor with Northwestern University's Integrated Marketing Communications program in Evanston, Ill., is not too worried. "We don't want to be buying ourselves to death here, but I think we are a long way from that," he says. "I don't think this is the burning of Rome...
...less a refuge from the outside world and more a competitor within it. "That's very tough for a place that has welcomed so many students of varying abilities over the years," says the trustee, who notes that historically black colleges had to endure a similar reconceptualization in the 1970s, after the Ivy League began poaching their most talented black students. Sooner or later, Gallaudet too will have to be just a college, not a cocoon...
...rates that closely tracked cable subscriptions, rising most rapidly in counties with the fastest-growing cable service. The same was true of autism and rainfall patterns in California, Pennsylvania and Washington State. Their oddly definitive conclusions: "Approximately 17% of the growth in autism in California and Pennsylvania during the 1970s and 1980s was due to the growth of cable television," and "just under 40% of autism diagnoses in the three states studied is the result of television watching due to precipitation...