Word: hipness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Granny fell and broke her hip." When the word first passes around the family circle, younger members especially are not seriously concerned. But that cavalier attitude quickly changes in the tragic sequence of events that so often follows: circulatory problems, including blood clots, respiratory infections like pneumonia, severe muscle atrophy during prolonged immobilization. Each year about 200,000 older Americans suffer from this seemingly minor accident. As many as 40,000 die of complications within six months, and another 40,000 are so disabled that they require chronic care in nursing homes for the rest of their lives...
...skillful propaganda campaign to block the stationing, primarily in West Germany, of new NATO nuclear missiles. Compounding the problem was Reagan himself, whose harsh, tough talk to the Kremlin has frightened U.S. supporters abroad and given force to neutralists' arguments that the President is a shoot-from-the-hip zealot, hell-bent on provoking nuclear...
...Yale has girls now. They even live in the same dormitories, though in different entryways. There aren't very many, but as Kingman Brewster so aptly put it, Yale has a responsibility to produce "1000 male leaders" every year. What with Consciousness III around the corner and Yale so hip, I guess they figure this is a good a time as any to begin attempting to fulfill that responsibility. Yale Admissions Director Inslee Clark--students call him Inky!--said Yale was going coed to improve the education of her men. I've also read in the Times that many Yale...
...Barry Goldwater, 72, Arizona's grand old conservative Republican Senator; with degenerative arthritis in the left hip; in Phoenix. He will undergo surgery to replace the hip with a metal ball and plastic socket. Goldwater, who limped painfully around the Senate during the AW ACS debate, will be out for six weeks...
...three, Randall clearly holds the pivotal role--and presents far and away the greatest acting challenge. Once he drops his smooth line of hip patter, Randall shiftsr rapidly through a stunningly broad range of emotions and motivations, his credo "I feel therefore I am." Depending on the moment, he must be honest, passionate, bitingly sarcastic, or so completely detatched that he can recite with a curiously third-person coldness a list of murders statistics or tales of his own bloody crimes. Lamar handles the transformations so naturally and so strikingly that the audience is taken aback, both startled and pulled...