Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women." Alexander Baranov, a Deputy Minister of Health, admitted in a recent newspaper interview that gynecologic clinics are no better, most of them lacking heat and plumbing. Yet the clinics are vital to the female population: 1 out of 3 Soviet women has gynecologic problems, and miscarriages are common...
Zestful exuberance is a common characteristic among Weeks' collection of American eccentrics. Dr. Patch Adams, for example, is a general practitioner in Arlington, Va., who runs a clinic called the Gezundheit Institute. Adams, who makes his living by lecturing and putting on educational shows, has a volunteer staff, dresses like a clown to cheer his patients and, even more cheering, does not charge them. "He believes laughter is one of the best medicines," says Weeks...
None of the films that followed Splash -- Bachelor Party, Volunteers, The Money Pit, Nothing in Common and Dragnet -- attracted quite the attention that his first hit had. Big will almost certainly bring the spotlight back, and his next two pictures, Punchline, the story of a stand-up comic, and The 'Burbs, a dark comedy about a suburbanite's fixation on his weird neighbors, may even raise Hanks' asking price, which is now something more than $1 million a picture...
...Mullen, 17, of Ventura, Calif. Law officers get heated up over potential noise, traffic, safety and property violations. Explains Mark Wynn, 12, who skates in Atlanta: "Cops always think you're tearing up places, and they're wrong . . . well, sorta." Police policy about skaters seems to have only one common denominator: chase 'em. In Chicago, authorities tell skaters to get off the sidewalk, while others tell them to get out of traffic...
...financial dealings of Speaker of the House Jim Wright have been accumulating for years, like interest at the troubled savings and loan associations he has been accused of helping a little too much. But the allegations took on a new seriousness two weeks ago, when the citizens' lobby Common Cause, followed several days later by 72 Republican Congressmen, asked the House ethics committee to investigate...