Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wiccans, and the spare proselytizing pamphleteer, take Halloween in Salem seriously, as something loaded with lasting historical and cultural significance. Maybe to them it's a distilled version of some deeper religious rift in American culture...
Cabot Professor of American Literature Alan E. Heimert '49, a member of the Harvard community for half a century, died last night in New York after a heart attack...
Half a dozen college chums reune to reminisce, bicker and bond. This agitated comedy (produced by Lee's cousin Spike) could be called The Big Chillin' if it had a smidge of the 1983 film's wit and charm. It's nice to see an African-American story set outside the 'hood, and we'll keep calling hunky Taye Diggs a star of the future until he's 60. But he'll have to be in movies better than The Best...
PAGING DR. DOTCOM A major reason patients may shy away from managing their health care online is fear that their privacy will be invaded. What if someone could find out your test results or what's in your medicine chest? To head off such fears, the American Medical Association, with Intel's help, will begin credentialing online doctors. A digital identity card will allow them to transmit medical data to patients securely. Next on our wish list: e-docs who make house calls...
This New Year's Eve is being touted as the wildest, most hellacious bash of all time. For Dick Clark, however, it won't be quite as rocking. Clark, the former "American Bandstand" host who has virtually cornered the market on TV specials, including the annual 90-minute New Year's fest, is being downsized to make room for daylong ABC News coverage of the millennial turnover, anchored by Peter Jennings. President Clinton is expected to address the nation near midnight, potentially bumping other programming off the airwaves. Clark - who has been host of New Year's Eve specials...