Word: contactable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...considered booking two places in a local retirement home, events came along to remind me of my own mortality. First, my previously annoying little sister now sported a set of contact lenses, a bustline, a pair of car keys and a linebacker-boyfriend whose neck was larger than my thigh. One night while I sat watching David Letterman, my sister and her beau-immense stumbled into the house after a night...
Rattle and Hum, the title of both U2's brand-new album of the 1987 tour and the energetic performance documentary film released last week, is the sound of the band making contact: with music, with tradition, with their audience, with one another. The title comes from Bullet the Blue Sky, their rabble-rousing apocalypse about American muscle flexing in Central America ("In the locust wind comes a rattle and hum . . . Outside is America"), but the substance of these various tour diaries is, in fact, an exploration. U2 did more than reach back. They immersed themselves in American musical culture...
...months be seized as a basis for coping with the events that will probably ensue rapidly. How could we do that? First of all, by continuing internal debate within the Jewish and Arab communities. Second, by continued discussion--exchanges of opinions through letters, yes, but better yet through personal contact, and even better yet everyone should take a break from opinion-ramming and just concentrate closely on what actually happens during the coming weeks. We probably cannot have any effect from here, but between us we can understand it better than if we try to force it into our preconceived...
...campaign, 1988 is the year that television was the campaign, a year in which one party, at its convention, deliberately muted the colors of the flag so they would televise better. To ensure that the news media would deliver the desired image, both campaigns shielded their men from spontaneous contact with the press, arranging instead a series of colorful, staged-for-TV events. On most days the strategy worked. "TV producers are like nymphomaniacs when it comes to visuals," explains Albert Hunt, Washington bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal. "Television's insatiable need for pretty pictures has cheapened...
...aroused greater emotion than Proposition 102, which would abruptly shift the state away from the policies that have put California in the forefront of the fight against AIDS. It would make compulsory what has always been voluntary: the reporting and tracking of people who have had intimate contact with carriers of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS...