Word: bobbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bob Dylan was back, having recovered from a serious motorcycle accident, and his album John Wesley Harding was climbing the charts. The Beatles returned from India to release their imaginative "White Album." In The Graduate, the year's top-grossing film, Dustin Hoffman embodied the anxiety of a generation. The Tet offensive shattered America's illusions about military victory in Viet Nam. The assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy shattered the nation's illusions, period. Lyndon Johnson dropped out. Richard Nixon bounced back. The Chicago police and their antiwar adversaries turned the Democratic National Convention into...
...extravagant, dangerous, ridiculous garden of the '60s, when the young were "forever young," as Bob Dylan's later anthem said, fierce and primal juices fired through the nerves. Complexity fell away. Deferrals of pleasure and deferences to age, the old Confucian virtues that had made their way into America through the Protestant ethic, blew away at the concussion of youth. "Don't trust anyone over 30" became the slogan of the conspiracy...
...annus mirabilis drew to an end, President-elect Richard Nixon and his aides, John Erlichman and Bob Haldeman, were busy in a suite on the 39th floor of the Pierre Hotel in Manhattan, assembling the new Administration, a new cast of characters, Henry Kissinger, John Mitchell and the rest. The nation soon would be off on a different road, or so one imagined. It would be another four years before the U.S. withdrew from Viet Nam, and another seven years before the North Vietnamese armies would sweep south and accomplish the result that American power had sought so long...
From early childhood, boys learn that the ideal man looks something like Mr. Universe. "Watch Saturday-morning television, and you'll see all these huge, abnormally muscled beings on cartoons and kids' programming," notes Chicago osteopath Bob Goldman. "Conan and Rambo are the heroes." So are sports stars, some of whom -- like Olympic sprinter Ben Johnson and Seattle Seahawk linebacker Brian Bosworth -- are known to have taken the steroid shortcut. Scrawny youngsters, some only 13, eagerly pay between $50 and $400 to black-market dealers for a six-to-13-week cycle of pills and injectables that could turn them...
...this morning, the doctor at Florida State Prison pronounced Theodore Bundy dead," said Jon Peck, a spokesperson for Florida Gov. Bob Martinez. "He was executed right on schedule...