Word: contently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Much has been accomplished, but even more remains to be done. Fifteen years ago, children infected with HIV lived an average of 18 months. Today many are teenagers, dreaming about first dates and proms and even law school. "We're no longer content to buy another year or two," says Dr. Joseph Church of Childrens Hospital Los Angeles. Nowadays, doctors think they might even have a chance to see their young patients grow...
...Like the content of television, newspapers, magazines, books and radio, the messages on the Internet range from the profound to the outrageous. But the Net makes it cheaper and easier than most mainstream-dominated media to broadcast your message to a large potential audience. Anyone can create web pages. Most Internet service providers and online services offer customers server space to publish their efforts on the Net. Whether anyone will look at them is another question. The radical difference between the Internet and other mass media is that while anyone can make a bid for attention at http something...
...culture that thinks postmodernism is a synonym for postemotionalism. They?re always trying to be coolly affectless about hotly affecting issues, hoping blunt, acceptant talk about sexual congress will disarm the subtle pains it always implies." BOOKS . . . BEAR AND HIS DAUGHTER: Robert Stone?s fans have had to content themselves, so far, with the five novels that he has published sporadically over the past 30 or so years. A sixth is scheduled to arrive in bookstores this fall, but the wait should be soothed by Bear and His Daughter (Houghton Mifflin; 222 pages; $24), a collection of six Stone short...
...culture that thinks postmodernism is a synonym for postemotionalism. They?re always trying to be coolly affectless about hotly affecting issues, hoping blunt, acceptant talk about sexual congress will disarm the subtle pains it always implies." BOOKS . . . BEAR AND HIS DAUGHTER: Robert Stone?s fans have had to content themselves, so far, with the five novels that he has published sporadically over the past 30 or so years. A sixth is scheduled to arrive in bookstores this fall, but the wait should be soothed by Bear and His Daughter (Houghton Mifflin; 222 pages; $24), a collection of six Stone short...
...directed by Tom Shadyac, there's enough surrealism in Liar Liar to content all but the most exigent Carrey fans. But there's something worrisome about the film's attempts to socialize and sentimentalize the '90s' designated anarchist. It's wrong to push characters like Carrey's toward mainstream lovability. Danger, with just the slightest touch of lonely-guy geekiness, is his business. Maybe The Cable Guy was miscalculated, but one would rather see Carrey heading for those dark woods than toward sun-splashed suburbia and the cheerfully romantic ending of this film...