Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...details of that day unfold before her. She recalls everyone around her thinking that "JFK's going to pull through." Only she knew he had died, because she was Catholic and knew what the ringing church bells meant. "He's dead, the President's dead, God rest his soul," she says, forming a cross over her chest. That's before we know that it is Kennedy's death that has influenced the people we see. But it is underlying everyone's stories, even that of Carla (Heather Johnston) who is more preoccupied with the death of Marilyn Monroe...
...most mysterious of the dead clubs is the lots. Its record in the University archives is a single strip of paper that reads...
...Army buddies will find themselves stuck in a roach motel ("they'll check in but they won't check out"). To be sure, the spectacle of "rescued" U.S. medical students kissing American soil made better press for Reagan than the nightly newscasts of mangled bodies of over 200 dead Marines in Beirut. But after all the flag-waving has died down, not even the unprecedented press censorship and disinformation can turn the Grenada invasion into a great U.S. victory in its anti-Soviet war drive. U.S. Troops Out of Grenada...
...legacy of doubt had weakened the moral underpinnings of Victorian and American society. But it had merely replaced religious faith with another dogma: the authority of Science. New believers turned to evidence of the world beyond the senses, "proof given by mediums who could communicate with the dead, make ectoplasm appear in darkened chambers and order inanimate objects to move at will. Katherine and Margaretta Fox of Arcadia, N.Y., were the superstars of the new movement, adolescents who could engender a rapping sound that issued, they said, from the beyond...
...simpler time, when the naive were easily swayed by con men and shadowy ladies. Today every paperback emporium offers tiers of books claiming intimate acquaintance with the text of the future and the leaders of the past. Thanatologist Elisabeth Kiibler-Ross tells followers she speaks with the dead. A new edition of the prophecies of Nostradamus, "receded by computer" to give the requisite scientific gloss, has recently sold more than 100,000 copies in Europe. In every epoch of social confusion, concludes this entertaining history of folly, "the show goes on. The spirits are willing, and the flesh is weak...