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Sullivan's motto is a peculiarly apt phrase with which to discuss Maxine Hong Kingston's Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Tale. Set in the city of the Golden Gate Bridges--one of America's postcard-perfect suspension bridges--Kingston's work balances characters and cliches in a startling manner...
...Surgeon General like him, not even Luther Terry, who slapped warnings on cigarette packs 24 years ago. It's a fair guess that Terry was never air-kissed by Elizabeth Taylor, the butt of jokes in Johnny Carson's monologue, was never a visitor to the set of Golden Girls, and never lectured Hollywood producers about showing safe sex in their programs. Antismoking is a small part of Koop's crusade; AIDS, child abuse, domestic violence, pornography, old people, drunk driving and Baby Doe regulations made Koop one of the most visible officials in Washington. Now at airports people offer...
...fabled Golden Aphrodite! Also known as Kallipygos (Beautiful Buttocks). Borne full-blown from the sea (aphros means foam; -dite rhymes with nightie). Worshiped for centuries by amorous couples coupling clamorously. She was Homer's Goddess of Pure and Heavenly Love, but we forget that Homer was blind. So, alas, are we. Turns out that Aphrodite (Venus to you Romans) was not Ms. Clean at all but the Goddess of Naughty Sex. It is she we can thank for most + of mankind's sexual problems, and chief among these is our obsession with her elusive elixir, the aphrodisiac...
Published 50 years ago, The Grapes of Wrath has taken its place among the handful of American novels (Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Jungle) that changed public attitudes and policy. To mark its golden anniversary, the book's original publisher has issued a new edition (Viking; $25) and also the journals Steinbeck kept during the five months (five months!) it took him to complete the 200,000-word manuscript...
...Stephanie Culp of Los Angeles is a pleasant, schoolmarmish woman who seven years ago turned her personal inclinations ("I was neurotically organized") into a career. "If I said I was a professional organizer seven years ago, people would have laughed," she says. "Now the idea is accepted." Culp's golden rule is to set priorities, and she's not kidding. "When you die, what do you want people to say at your funeral?" she asked California businesswoman Baker-Velasquez. Answer: "I didn't want my children to say, 'My mother was a wonderful businesswoman...