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...late '40s and early '50s, when he reported on the first stirrings of Japan's postwar economic rebirth. This week Gibney follows in his father's journalistic footsteps, watching Japan climb out of economic doldrums and prepare for a critical election. This is a time of unusual ferment in the normally staid nation, says Gibney. "The story isn't so much about next week's election as it is about a country in search of a future...
Alcohol and Sport have always shared a close relationship. Since the first grapes were crushed and left to ferment, wine and subsequently beer and hard alcohol have been associated with merry-making and festivals in all regions of the world...
...despite the excitement and ferment generated by Alzheimer's in the research arena, patients and their families remain in a dispiriting limbo. At present, physicians acknowledge, the best that medicine can do is keep the disease's sufferers--like former President Ronald Reagan--functioning at higher levels for longer periods of time. Many Alzheimer's patients, for example, perk up when they are given antidepressant drugs. They also become less agitated when placed in a structured, stress-free environment. And sometimes--though not always--their intellectual performance can be enhanced by a particular drug that increases levels of acetylcholine...
This time the festival attracted visitors from Britain, Denmark, Israel, Syria, Australia and China. Even Hollywood showed up: ABC, NBC, TNT, Warner Bros. Television and Carsey-Werner all sent emissaries. Some were looking to snag writers and actors for the mainstream entertainment maw. Others came to join the collegial ferment. Says Janet Blake, a veep at Walt Disney Television: "Where else can you have a lively discussion with Jimmy Breslin"--who presented a savagely witty skit about Newt Gingrich haranguing his first wife in her hospital bed--"and two minutes later be talking to Tony Kushner? Only in Louisville...
...Populist Party that arose from that ferment was short-lived, but the common-man sentiments that it crystallized lived on. Separately or together they ran through the presidential campaigns of William Jennings Bryan and Prohibition, through Teddy Roosevelt's Progressives, the left-wing labor movement and the right-wing radio priesthood of Father Coughlin. And the Republican Revolution of 1994. "But the Republican populism of the past generation or so has been all antigovernment," says historian Alan Brinkley. "Buchanan is putting back the anticorporate elements...