Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ALBERT & ALLEN HUGHES PAST FILMS Menace II Society, Dead Presidents FUTURE FILM From Hell AGE DIFFERENCE: Albert, 27, is nine minutes older FUN FAMILY FACT: Mother was the Pomona, Calif., chapter president of National Organization for Women RECURRING MOTIFS: Violence, '70s music HOW CLOSE ARE THEY? "As co-producers and co-directors of their films, the brothers work very much in concert." --New York Newsday...
CHRIS & PAUL WEITZ PAST FILM Wrote screenplay for Antz CURRENT FILM American Pie AGE DIFFERENCE: Paul, 33, is four years older FUN FAMILY FACT: Their father, designer John Weitz, was a spy for the OSS RECURRING MOTIFS: Too soon to tell, but hopefully they won't revisit teenagers fornicating with pies HOW CLOSE ARE THEY? "If Paul burps 10 miles away, Chris will apologize." --Chris Weitz...
...headaches and depression--known to him as "the blues"--not to mention rhinophyma, the skin disease that in his 50s turned his nose into a purple bulb. He hated to be alone but had no talent for making friends--as distinguished from mistresses. He started a new romance at age 74 with a titled Englishwoman of 49. Women saw past not only the hideous nose but also the peremptory manner that they thought disguised an inner shyness. With some reason: Morgan was ruthless in getting rid of inept partners, but could hardly ever bear to fire them in person...
...government offices there is confusion. Some ministers believe NATO will intervene to help; others argue that the alliance is far too divided to rescue such a small province. Milosevic is starting to turn up the pressure. He has issued a draft order for all battle-age Montenegrins, and his promises that no locals would be sent to Kosovo have been abandoned. Trees along boulevards now sprout the death notices of local soldiers killed in Kosovo. A civil war here would surely bring the dying closer to home...
Doctors used to blame the higher incidence of lung cancer among those who started smoking in their youth on their prolonged exposure to tobacco. But the new study, involving 143 subjects in the Boston area--some of whom lit up as early as age seven--suggests a more insidious cause. Explains epidemiologist John Wiencke of the University of California at San Francisco: "Use of tobacco so early apparently permanently impairs normal processes of cell renewal. Otherwise, their DNA damage would long since have been repaired...