Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pistol. "I'll only hurt you if you try to plug my baby back in." Linares, 23, and his wife Tamara had come to the Chicago hospital in the middle of the night to visit their 15-month-old son. Since swallowing an uninflated balloon and suffocating at a birthday party last August, little Samuel had been partly brain dead, kept alive by a life-support system...
...occasion: a parade in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, honoring the 100th birthday of Adolf Hitler last week. The host: Richard Girnt Butler, 71, leader of the white-supremacist group Aryan Nations. The invited guests: young skinhead toughs whom Butler wants to recruit to his bigoted cause. A 21-year-old Californian identified himself as "Whiteman." At a press conference he defined the skinhead philosophy as "retaliation for all the years of being beaten down by other races." He went on to predict that "a new generation has to come. The skins are the next wave...
However it is celebrated, France's birthday party promises to be anything but boring. The main business of such a celebration is, after all, a kind of % national introspection. More than a century ago, historian Alexis de Tocqueville, the first cool head to examine the various sides of the revolution, wrote, "Happy are those who can tie together in their thoughts the past, the present and the future. No Frenchman of our time has had this happiness." In this bicentennial year, the task seems daunting as ever. But the stimulation of ideas and the resulting reflection make the jubilee remembrance...
...restore an old house find that remodeling can be much more expensive than wrecking it and starting over. Anyway, in most cases the existing homes bear no resemblance to the sugarplums dancing in many Hollywood heads. Many of the mansions under construction, ornate stone boxes known among architects as "birthday cakes," average roughly 10,000 sq. ft.; the typical American home is 2,000 sq. ft. Among the popular features are recording studios, tanning parlors, servants' quarters, double kitchens (one for catering) and motorized chandeliers. Outside, there are polo fields, putting greens, petting zoos, heliports, waterfalls and, in the case...
...counting? The real problem in celebrating TV's anniversary is not locating the proper date but encompassing adequately a medium whose impact has been so broad, so overpowering, so unfathomable. What should TV's birthday revelers commemorate? TV as an entertainment medium? As a chronicler of our times? A business enterprise? A technological device? A social force...