Word: apartness
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That was two years ago. Now the payment stream from her business has come to its scheduled end, and Parry's plan has fallen apart. Her accountant recently floored her with awful news: the stock market has whacked her savings to $600,000, and she can no longer afford the lifestyle she had tasted so briefly. "I'm looking for part-time work," she says bitterly. "But something tells me it will end up being full-time work...
This attitude sets boomers apart from their parents, who have traditionally been content to travel, golf and play a lot of pinochle. The emerging retirement ideal is far more active. The University of Miami Institute for Retired Professionals arranges for anyone over 50 to audit regular university courses or take five-week summer sessions, with such classes as creative writing, literature, drawing, computers and a newly added course on Middle East politics and Islam. "A lot of folks are here every day," the institute's director, Noreen Frye, says of the over-50 set. "Others are active with their church...
Things are exciting onscreen too--though in these three-hour extravaganzas there's not much violence, no nudity, hardly even any kissing. Forced to sublimate, Bollywood taught itself to revel in full-blooded, full-throated drama. "The formula is essentially a family epic," says Mehta. "A family that breaks apart and then comes together. It's also the story of Partition." The partition of India and Pakistan, that is--but with vagrant, fragrant hope of union within diversity. A father denounces, then tearfully embraces his son (Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham). A group of 19th century peasants battle their Brit overlords...
...been calm, although the team's psychiatrist, Luis Pintor, has been called upon to talk to a couple of people having trouble adapting to the news that they have the mutation. "From the outset, these people have been determined to know, even though there is no treatment," says Molinuevo. Apart from being able to decide whether or not to have children, who may inherit the mutation, Molinuevo lists other benefits of knowledge: "Once told, they can plan their professional, spiritual and family life. They can decide how they want to live with the disease, and where, what attitude their family...
...Things are exciting onscreen too ?though in these three-hour extravaganzas there's not much violence, no nudity, hardly even any kissing. Forced to sublimate, Bollywood taught itself to revel in full-blooded, full-throated drama. "The formula is essentially a family epic," says Mehta. "A family that breaks apart and then comes together. It's also the story of Partition." The partition of India and Pakistan, that is?but with vagrant, fragrant hope of union within diversity. A father denounces, then tearfully embraces his son (Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham). A group of 19th century peasants battle their Brit overlords...