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...making the War on Aging a national crusade, dedicating some of our nation's greatest scientific minds and medical talents to developing new forms of cosmetic surgeries, new exercise contraptions, new diets, new miracle fabrics that camouflage and contain, and all manner of expensive new anti-aging ointments. --Bill Geist, The Big Five-Oh! Facing, Fearing, and Fighting Fifty...
Male writers seem more comfortable in announcing their 50th birthday, in such books as Dave Barry Turns 50 (Crown); The Big Five-Oh! Facing, Fearing, and Fighting Fifty by Bill Geist (Quill) and The 50 Year Dash: The Feelings, Foibles and Fears of Being Half a Century Old, by Bob Greene (Doubleday). The books are all similar: a series of rat-a-tat gags about failing eyesight, flagging libido and fading memories. But contemporaries will relate...
Urusei Yatsura rocks. They are from Scotland. Lead singer Fergus Lawrie says lyrics as if he has invited the Geist of the decade into his mouth...
...Unlike modern computers, with their tidy array of microchips, this dinosaur is stuffed with thousands and thousands of feet of wire. "The technicians tell us the wires are so brittle they sometimes break when you just touch them," says Mark Scholl, president of the Chicago Center controllers' union. Wanda Geist, who heads the technicians' union at Chicago Center, says, "This computer has been running 24 hours a day, seven days a week for 25 years. Things just wear...
...cool, cloistered spaces, the casts of the great bronze doors at Hildesheim, are visited only by a few ghosts, like myself, from the glorious days of Charles Kuhn. "Es ist der Geist der sich den Korper baut" (spirit creates the body) can still be read on the facade, but today's spirit is one of greed. Werner Otto's name could hardly adorn an air-conditioning machine, no matter how expensive...