Word: fluid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...presidency feels different to us now, less a solid than a liquid, too vast for any one man to poison permanently, yet so fluid it molds to the shape of the vessel it's poured into. For much of this century, particularly from Franklin Roosevelt on, the men wore the office, borrowed its majesty to wage war or make peace. Modern Presidents cannot count on that mystique. Now the office wears the man. In the age of 24-hour news channels, it is the man we recognize and judge, which is why Reagan's power was utterly different from Carter...
...schemes have a tendency to blow up in his face. In fact, by the middle of the film, it appears as if lack of discipline has cost him dearly. However , what Rushmore really needed was a good tightening of the story in order to make the comedy more fluid...
Miller was a social realist, yet it's easy to forget that Death of a Salesman was also an experimental work, with its fluid leaps in time as Willy drifts into memories of his sons as teenagers and of his idolized brother Ben. Director Robert Falls' expressionistic new version--the traditional house set replaced by props and rooms that rotate around Willy on a turntable--puts the focus on Willy's interior life. While not quite the revisionist breakthrough some have hailed it (a 1996 production at London's National Theatre, the stage dominated by a broken tree, departed similarly...
...husband Randy was killed in an accident last year. She received a $255 death benefit from the federal Social Security Administration--exactly $5 more, she discovered, than her grandmother got 31 years ago when her husband died. "I was absolutely stunned. I mean, that didn't even buy embalming fluid," she says. "It was like getting a dime tip after you've worked for an hour for a table of 15." Instead came food and prayers, in a humbling wave, from her friends and neighbors. "We take care of our own," she says...
...fetoprotein testing to seek out telltale proteins that may indicate spina bifida, neural-tube defects or Down syndrome--or looking directly at the fetus with ultrasound scans. For women over 35, doctors usually recommend more invasive procedures in which actual fetal cells are gathered from the womb's amniotic fluid (amniocentesis) or placenta (chorionic villus sampling...