Word: agee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Celebrity weddings have become a hot media commodity these days. Photo rights are haggled over by magazines; impressive sums of money are paid to the couple's charity of choice in return for access. But MACAULEY CULKIN and RACHEL MINER, who got married at the perilously young age of 17 last month and only now have released (free of charge!) their photos, didn't play that game. Cynics may remark that it's only because this is just the first wedding for each. Romantics, which these two seem to be, might insist that they are young, in love and nothing...
First, there's the flag. It snaps bravely enough in the breeze blowing in off the sea. But there's something just slightly off about the image. Old Glory looks, well, old in this backlighted image--thin, faded, antique, like the unambiguous emotions it used to stir in an age less given to irony and selfishness than our own. Steven Spielberg, in his new film, Saving Private Ryan, wants us to think about that, about how "the deep pride we once felt in our flag" has given way "to cynicism about our colors...
...older--or love someone who is--you need to consider whether the old thermostat is still working. Last week the American College of Physicians, a conservative arbiter of treatment standards, recommended a blood test for thyroid disorders at least once every five years for all women in this age group...
...advice comes as something of a reversal for the A.C.P. Back in 1990, it argued that routine screening was unnecessary because doctors could pick up most thyroid disorders on their own. Since then, however, studies have shown that among women who are middle-aged and older, 1 in 71 suffers from a thyroid disorder that is severe enough to cause problems but has never been diagnosed. (Men also develop thyroid disease as they age, but at a much lower rate.) Why do doctors miss so many cases? Turns out that many symptoms associated with thyroid disorders mimic the signs...
Neither Kieslowski nor Piesiewicz was a practicing Catholic. They were interested in examining the relevance of old laws in a Catholic country in a postmoral age. Decalogue, Five, which was made into a longer piece called A Short Film About Killing, shows two brutal, useless murders. In the first a drifter, for no special reason, strangles a taxi driver; the scene lasts seven excruciating minutes. In the second the killer is hanged by the state; that execution takes only a moment, but it is no less ugly or vindictive. The state, like individuals, has few reasons, many excuses. Kieslowski absolves...