Word: 90s
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fountain of youth. Yet even in today's pragmatic, scientific world, their arteries do seem to carry an elixir of long life. The members of these families, says investigator Dr. Dennis Sprecher of the University of Cincinnati, "typically live for long periods of time, into their 80s and 90s, with very few instances of heart disease, if indeed they have...
...families. "I eat everything I want," she says. "I don't worry about it as far as affecting my heart or building up plaque in my arteries." Sweeney's mother Regina Darpel, 86, notes that other members of her family have lived well into their 90s. She has the same remarkable blood chemistry; so do Sweeney's five children and her sister...
PRESS: Two '60s- era magazines are remade for the '90s...
...find Degas's true feelings about women, one should consult the pastels and oil paintings of nudes that he made, at the height of his powers, in the 1880s and '90s. Their bodies are radiant, worked almost to a thick crust of pastel matte and blooming with myriad strokes within their tough winding contours. But they are also mechanisms of flesh and bone, all joints, protuberances, hollows, neither "personalities" nor pinups. (One sees why Duchamp, inventor of the mechanical bride, adored and copied Degas...
...graduates of the '90s promise to be a different breed from the carefree cutups of the '50s, the earnest rebels of the late '60s or even the button- down bankers-to-be of the '80s. "They're coming to us a lot tougher and less innocent than previous generations," says Marilyn Katz, dean of studies and student life at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y. "They're not wrapped in as much cotton batting." At the University of Southern California, Economics Professor Kenneth Taylor is concerned that today's students are overwhelmed by "more choices than they have ever...