Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hiatt discussed the impacts of the disease."The absence of a vaccine and therapeutie agentsleave grim prospects for biology and medicine." hesaid. "With no mechanisms to change the prospectsin the near, or perhaps even distant future, ouronly hopes are to encourage serious, enlightenedresearch, and to focus on prevention...
...longer. Nowadays America's seniors are giving the lie to that grim vision. Fully half of all people now 75 to 84 are free of health problems that require special care or that curb their activities, according to surveys. Says Sociologist Bernice Neugarten of Northwestern University: "Even in the very oldest group, those above 85, more than one-third report no limitation due to health." Declares Dr. Richard Besdine, director of the aging center at the University of Connecticut: "Aging doesn't necessarily mean a life that is sick, senile, sexless, spent or sessile...
What the movie folks have noticed is a grim specter haunting all of yuppiedom. No matter how furiously they pedal their Exercycles, no matter how earnestly they chomp through their radicchio or how desperately they try to drown their anxieties in wine coolers, the yups cannot escape this terrible fact: procreation is the enemy of recreation. Not to mention carefree getting and spending. Recently we have seen one mini-hit (Baby Boom) and one maxi-hit (3 Men and a Baby) offering implausibly sentimental reassurances that there is life after surrogate parenthood. Now comes that prolific chronicler of youthful crises...
...improvement," he says, "not the competition." Maybe that explains his reputation for perfectionism. Only rarely does he flub a figure or miss one of his eight triple jumps. Such determination helped him win the world championship in 1986. A year later though, that same grim correctness contributed to the loss of his title to Orser. Not demonstrative enough, needs more panache, tut-tutted pundits...
...postshow atmosphere at CBS was grim. Some 6,000 people called CBS's New York headquarters that evening, most crying foul. Howard Stringer, the president of CBS News, came somewhat belatedly to Rather's defense. "The public doesn't often see aggressive journalism on television," he explained. "This is not the time to be careful how we address the people who want to be President of the United States." Stringer says the episode reinforced the need for live television on the evening news. "If we want to sanitize the evening news all the time, where all the edge is taken...