Word: birthdays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when Sister Mary died--in 1995, three months short of her 102nd birthday--an autopsy of her brain revealed a startling secret. Everywhere Snowdon and his colleagues looked, they saw signs of devastation, from microscopic plaques and tangles to gaping holes where millions of brain cells had died. Sister Mary, they realized, had been living with an advanced case of Alzheimer's disease--so advanced, says Snowdon, that it was hard to understand how she could have conducted herself with such clarity and coherence...
Fletcher Reede is a divorced dad, hardworking and ambitious, trying to make partner at a law firm. His adorable son Max (Justin Cooper) is constantly disappointed by his father's failures to keep their dates for ball games and birthday parties, and weary of his lame excuses for going AWOL. Puffing out the candles on his fifth-birthday cake, Fletcher's telephonic explanations for blowing off the event still ringing in his ears, the kid wishes that his father could be forced to tell the truth for 24 hours...
...March 21, the Coppola/Puzio chef d'oeuvre will make its 25th anniversary return to theaters nationwide, with re-mastered sound as frosting on the birthday cake of an already incredible cinematic experience. Yet the imminent return of the don to the never-big-enough screen as well as the recent spate of mafia movies a la Donnie Bosco left me groping for the key to the mafia's popularity. Is it the films' documentary style? Are the Goodfellas so real they become funny? Funny how? Funny like a clown funny...
...WHOLE LOTTA SHAKIN' GOIN' ON Uh-oh, it's Jell-O. This year the gelatin dessert has its 100th birthday, and so in June its hometown of LeRoy, New York, opens an exhibit that will be part of a permanent museum. Trivia fact: an electroencephalogram shows that a human brain and a bowl of quivering lime Jell-O have the same waves...
...this time around in the U.S. Senate would be his last. Speaking at a college chapel in the town where he grew up, Glenn told a small crowd of supporters and students that his desire for public service remained strong. But "there is still no cure for the common birthday." Glenn said, smiling. "Although my health remains excellent . . . another term in the Senate would take me at the end of that term to the age of 83." It was a typically modest exit for a man elected in 1972 as the symbol of a glorious time of progress, and whose...