Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sister calls him Stinky, his brother does not believe that Philadelphia is the capital of Belgium. Naturally Spinky Sulks (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $13.95). At age 81, William Steig can still use the cartoonist's technique to render the wounds of childhood and the consolations of pouting. Spinky receives entreaties from his mother, lectures from his father and apologies from his siblings. Eventually, of course, he comes around, but only on his terms and his schedule. In youth as in humor, timing is everything. Steig has not forgotten that either...
...better illustrations. Some 60 prominent artists from Sendak to Nicola Bayley have given stature to such street doggerel as "Once there was a little boy,/ He lived in his skin;/ When he pops out,/ You may pop in" and George Bernard Shaw's effort for the young, presented at age 93: "Dumpitydoodledum big bow wow/ Dumpitydoodledum dandy!" Not exactly Dr. Seuss, but, as young people know, many a satisfying afternoon can be spent with leftovers...
...Americans measure up to these overall guidelines? Rather badly. The mean cholesterol levels of men over the age of 35 fall well into the borderline-high-risk area. More than a third of American men between the ages of 45 and 64 are in the high-risk category. Because of differences in hormones, premenopausal women run a low risk of developing heart disease. In later years, though, this advantage is lost, and women between 55 and 64 have significantly higher total cholesterol levels than men the same age. The dangers of high readings are evident: the chance of a heart...
...tender hero cracking wise to cover up his soft spots; the lethal blond and the flick-knife dialogue on which the movies (and so the rest of us) still feed -- all of them seem to have been copyrighted by the onetime oil executive who only began writing at the age of 45. In seven novels and in the screenplays he wrote for Billy Wilder and Alfred Hitchcock, Chandler scripted much of the unshaven poetry and arsenic idealism that form us now, and haunt us still, in Mickey Spillane beer ads and smoky urban videos, from Jack Nicholson's Chinatown...
...devout fan of Mike Schmidt and the Phillies, I found Neil Cooper's column "The Aging Star Returns Home" (December 9) offensive. Cooper revealed a complete lack of insight concerning Schmitty's career. I can remember 1985, when doubts began to surface about Mike's age and ability to play. He rebounded to have an MVP season in 1986 and to smash his 500th homerun into the Pittsburgh bullpen in 1987. The fans doubted him then, but he proved us wrong...