Word: agee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think that history can be foretold by studying the patterns of the past. Still, the rhythms of change in the past century have displayed uncanny regularity. Schlesinger's theory, inherited in part from his father, is that people have absorbed their formative political values by the time they reach age 18 or so. Ronald Reagan reached that age during the years of Calvin Coolidge, whose portrait now hangs in the Cabinet room in the White House. John Kennedy came of age with the New Deal and World War II. Says Schlesinger: "In general, we have 30-year cycles based...
...menstruating women, often in conjunction with the use of tampons, this was not true of the flu victims. Four of the eleven were males, and only two of the females were menstruating at the time they fell ill (both said they were not using tampons). The patients ranged in age from five to 56, but most of the deaths were among children. Says Dr. Kristine MacDonald of the Minnesota Department of Health: "There is some suggestion that younger people are more susceptible to TSS. As people get older, more of them have antibodies to protect them." Indeed, most adults...
...place of stirring rhetoric, Dukakis offers his own stewardship of a surging state economy that has transformed Massachusetts from industrial stagnation to New Age affluence. Dukakis has been refining this message of economic regeneration since he began nurturing dreams of the Oval Office after his landslide re-election victory last November. An initial foray into Iowa drew mixed reviews. But Dukakis, generally far more impressive in small groups than on a podium, gave a relaxed and polished performance at the New Hampshire state Democratic dinner early this month. His speech combined a vision of an entrepreneurial yet compassionate Democratic Party...
...would be easy to stigmatize Hook as a collector of grievances and negatives. In fact, an almost heroic optimism invigorates his work. Twice in old age, he notes, his heart has stopped, and once he asked to be taken off life-support systems, only to be refused. Yet he feels that "the test of whether a human being has enjoyed a happy life is whether, if it were possible, he or she would accept another round of it. By this test I have had a happy life...
...produces her own films, sees a "tremendous amount of change" because women are rising to positions of power in the field. One currently popular couples film is Candida Royalle's Three Daughters, which seems like a cross between Debbie Does Dallas and The Waltons. Daughters features three college-age sisters groping their way toward adult life, surrounded by randy and caring males, a warm emotional family and a good deal of expensive lingerie. The film cost more than $70,000 to make, high by standards of the industry...