Word: agee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...them tended to be about their gayness, its birth and death. "It was either 'Mom, I'm coming out of the closet' or 'Oh, my best friend is sick,'" says David Elzer of Trimark, which distributes Kiss. "It was issue, issue, issue. Now we're coming into a new age. Billy's story is universal. Everyone has longed for someone else who may or may not have loved them back." Says Ray Price, head of the company's film division: "The movie is so wholesome that you could take your mother, your sister, your Ronald Reagan uncle...
There are several reasons for singling out teenage girls. For one thing, they develop chlamydia more often than adults. In fact, whenever health experts track cases by age, they find that about half of all chlamydia cases occur in girls ages 15 to 19. Reason: the younger the woman, the more vulnerable to infection is her cervix, the ring of tissue that protects the opening to her uterus. In addition, chlamydia often infects silently, with few or no initial symptoms. Although it is easily cured with antibiotics, the longer it remains undetected and untreated, the more likely...
...waterborne diseases can bring everyday community life to a grinding halt. Imagine communities without chlorination, running water or the fuel to boil drinking water. One in every three people in the developing world drinks from unprotected sources, and every year diarrhea alone kills nearly 3 million children under the age of five, accounting for a quarter of all deaths in this age group. The U.N. Development Programme has been working to develop safe water sources, but the loss of life due to water-related illness continues because of the lack of political will, inadequate institutional structures, poor financial support...
...come away from Summer of Deliverance thinking that the really complicated business here was not so much James Dickey's life (he died in early 1997 at the age of 73) as his son's effort--tender, scathing, forgiving--to sort it out. Christopher Dickey begins the book, "My father was a great poet, a famous novelist, a powerful intellect, and a son of a bitch I hated...
...Paris bureau chief for Newsweek, writes with a fine complexity, acquired the hard way, by experience with a self-absorbed father, a mother who was herself alcoholic and a family drama that descended, from time to time, to the gothically dysfunctional. After Christopher's mother died of cancer at age 50, the widowed poet waited just two months before marrying a former student of his, almost 30 years his junior. In 1991 the local newspaper reported that she was caught injecting cocaine in an abandoned house with a stranger and given two year's probation for possession. The hunter-athlete...