Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people die. I killed. I almost was killed. Almost immediately I realized that combat is totally random. It has nothing to do with heroism. Cowardice and heroism are the same emotion -- fear -- expressed differently. And life is a matter of luck. Two soldiers are standing two feet apart. One gets killed, the other lives. I was never a religious person -- I was raised Protestant, the great compromise -- but I became religious in Viet Nam. Possibly I was saved for a reason. To do some work. Write about it. Make a movie about...
Twenty years after it tore apart the nation' s conscience, the Viet Nam War reaches the screen with searing power and immediacy. Oliver Stone' s Platoon has already earned raves from the critics and long lines at the box office. It is also detonating a fire storm of memories and debate about the U. S. fighting man in the jungles of Southeast Asia. See SHOW BUSINESS...
...Writer appeared on PBS's American Playhouse in 1984, with Bloom playing a woman trapped in her writer-husband's hermetic life somewhere in New England. Roth and Bloom are hardly trapped; they now divide each year between Connecticut and her house in London. "We try not to be apart for more than a month at a time," says Roth. The author and the actress are, in some ways, an odd match; she needs people, other actors, crews, audiences for her work just as much as he requires isolation for his. So when Bloom is in rural Connecticut, her enforced...
...environment," says Developmental Psychologist Sandra Scarr of the University of Virginia. Lykken makes the same point: "The environment molds your personality, but your genes determine what kind of environment you have, seek and attend to." Since the early 1960s, several twin studies have reported that identical twins reared apart are actually more alike than those raised in the same home. Scarr thinks the reason is that parents faced with identical twins try hard to stress differences between siblings. Says she: "Living with the same family seems to increase intellectual similarity and decrease resemblance in personality...
...Apart from questions about Hanford's future production, the authorities still confront the problem of what to do with radioactive nuclear wastes both at Hanford and elsewhere. Across the U.S. some 15,000 tons of the poisonous stuff are stored in aging containers by various utility companies; some 1,400 tons more are added every year. Congress thought it had solved the question, more or less, by deciding in 1982 that the Department of Energy would pick one gigantic burial site in the West (where there is more empty space) and one in the East (where most of the waste...