Word: age
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Native Californians learn at an early age that it's impossible to explain the place to the rest of the world, so why bother? Nobody believes it when Californians say they don't sit around worrying about earthquakes and mudslides; that they don't care when two professional football teams leave the state's largest city inside of three months; or that in the world capital of nutcase extremists, the guy who really seemed like an odd duck a year ago was Gray Davis, a nerdy gubernatorial candidate who claimed he would govern from the center, of all places...
...Age adds another complication. Most people, as they get older, need reading glasses or bifocals for close work. This condition, called presbyopia, is different from farsightedness because it has nothing to do with the shape of the eye; it happens when the lenses in the eyes lose their ability to curve sufficiently to focus on nearby objects...
...like most baby boomers, a narcissist. In pursuit of the perfect body, we've tried spinning and step, aerobics and anaerobics, Pilates and Tae-Bo. But not even a hunky personal trainer and all those Kathy Smith exercise tapes can keep the lines, wrinkles and age spots away. No wonder plastic surgery is so big--with an estimated 4.9 million cosmetic procedures done last year, according to the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery, up more than 800% since...
...brief phone interview from his home in Montana, the 59 year-old actor considered his lengthy and successful career. His first professional stage appearance, on Broadway at the age of 21, earned Fonda rave reviews and several critics' awards. Since then his credits have included the great anti-establishment "road film" Easy Rider (produced, co-scripted and starring Fonda, earning him an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay) and 1997's Ulee's Gold (for which Fonda received a Golden Globe, the New York Film Critics Award and the Oscar nomination for Best Actor...
...definitely learned more than I learned in college," she says. "They are so wise at that age...