Word: agee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Twenty years later, though, the former counterculturalist has, like much of his generation, embraced traditional domestic pleasures. He's happily married and the devoted father of four, including the now college-age Lisa. He has befriended his biological sister, writer Mona Simpson (who wrote him into her novel A Regular Guy) and made contact with his birth mother. It's hard not to be charmed by the sheer joy Jobs derives from talking, mostly off the record, about his family: how his youngest daughter just started waving him off to work; how he won't let his kids watch...
Damasio cites the case of a young woman who at age 30, shortly after the birth of her second child, entered a netherworld of nonstop epileptic seizures. The seizures damaged a region of the brain called the hippocampus, so that afterward she could no longer recall the simplest things, like having put clothes in the washer or having given her kids permission to visit friends. For six years she has lived in a free-floating present, unable to form new memories or envision the future. Her extended consciousness has been sadly diminished...
NAME: 'N Sync AVERAGE AGE: 22 OCCUPATION: Filling the void left by New Kids on the Block BEST PUNCH: After quarreling with its record label over money, announced intention to relocate to Jive Records, current home of Backstreet Boys...
NAME: Backstreet Boys AVERAGE AGE: 23 OCCUPATION: Filling the void left by New Kids on the Block BEST PUNCH: Already considering 'N Sync imitators, threatened to leave Jive if rivals arrive, alleging the label won't be able to give both bands adequate attention...
...age of concern for a child's innocence, Pera might have underlined the corruptive nature of a man's lust for a girl on the cusp of pubescence. Instead, her Lo is the aggressor, the seducer and, eventually, the dismisser. "I'm going to get this Humbert for myself," she tells her diary. She instructs him in the finer points of sex play. And when "Hummie-Dummie" devolves into a nagging "Mama Humbert," she leaves with Filthy--after giving the drugged Hum a goodbye sodomizing with the pen he'd used for his own diary...