Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...find biological markers that will characterize a tumor as essentially harmless or dangerous while it is still small--which would eliminate much of the uncertainty about decisions to treat, how to treat or not to treat prostate cancer. "A great many men who die in their their 70s and 80s have small prostate cancers that haven't done anything," Hood says, and wouldn't have benefited from treatment...
...this marks a sea change from the sackcloth style of recent years. "The beginning of the '90s was a reaction against the glitz and conspicuous consumption of the '80s," says Valerie Steele, a professor of fashion history at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. "And you saw that in the 'Gapification' of America. Now there is a return to the status of fashion, luxury and quality." And how. Just ask Chanel, where women have reserved the company's entire new line of $750 khaki pants even though the Gap offers a comparable look for about...
Cindy Sherman, the artist who rose to fame in the '80s for slightly creepy photos of herself in various guises, will now flex those creepy muscles as director of an unnamed independent horror movie. "She has great command of the mise-en-scene," says producer Christine Vachon, who worked with photographer Larry Clark on Kids. "She just needed a little push...
...president of patrician Silver Hill in New Canaan, Connecticut, who says that the arbitrariness of month-long stays "made no clinical sense." Dr. William Goldman, medical director of U.S. Behavioral Health, one of the largest companies in the country, agrees. "Most of the free-standing psychiatric hospitals in the '80s provided only one service--24-hour, acute hospital care," he says. "It became apparent to payers that treatment usually ended, particularly with substance abuse, when the limit was reached on one's insurance coverage. Patients always got better on the thirtieth...
...whose Gershwin Plays Gershwin album won raves when it came out in 1994. For that CD, Wodehouse rerecorded Gershwin's piano-roll performances by playing them on a Yamaha Disklavier, a kind of computer-driven player piano. The Pearl set is based on actual historic recordings--78s, Edison 80s, radio-broadcast acetates. Wodehouse painstakingly tracked them down around the country and cleaned them up for modern ears. "It's a shame that they got lost in the shuffle," says Wodehouse. "But great pop music comes back, and that is what is going to happen here...