Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senior HIV Intervention Project, an AIDS advocacy group. Most troubling, though, is that doctors often fail to consider HIV as a possible illness among their senior patients. As a result, the elderly are often misdiagnosed. Also, AIDS symptoms like dementia and weight loss can mimic the ravages of old age. "So there is a higher prevalence of people being diagnosed in the month of death," says Dr. Karl Goodkin, an associate professor at the University of Miami School of Medicine. Goodkin, who is conducting a national study on the rate of cognitive impairment in HIV-infected elderly, says the virus...
...calls it a "time funnel," a point of metaphysical access connecting present and past. Tony worked for years writing unsigned Talk of the Town pieces for the New Yorker. He tells Alger's story as a kind of cold war fairy tale, colored by the moods of our age of therapy: Once upon a time, a boy's idealistic young father was set upon by an ogre who hid under the bridge, Whittaker Chambers (fat, neurotic, with bad teeth and a sick man's mysterious need to destroy), a former communist agent who told congressional investigators that Hiss transmitted government...
NAME: Spike ("He Got Game") Lee AGE: 42 OCCUPATION: Director, Nike pitchman BEST PUNCH: Asked at a press conference about Charlton Heston's involvement with the N.R.A., Lee joked that Heston should be shot "with a .44-cal. bulldog" pistol...
NAME: Charlton ("He Got Guns") Heston AGE: 74 OCCUPATION: Actor, N.R.A. pitchman BEST PUNCH: After unamused Representative Dick Armey castigated Lee, a bemused Heston said, "He gave me a big laugh... If he wants to take a shot...
...ages 18 to 34, according to media analysts, have traditionally watched fewer hours of TV than other demographic groups and remain an especially elusive audience today. "These guys have more media options than any other age group in history," notes FX president Peter Liguori, "and their tastes are more eclectic than ever." Advertisers find it hard to tap into this desirable group, says Larry Divney, president of Comedy Central, the No. 1 cable channel among young men. "Advertisers can get them through network sports, etc.," he says, "but then they have to pay for the waste"--marketers' parlance for middle...