Word: instants
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...orthodox historic preservationists, it seems perverse to make instant history out of the immediate past. But Hess is a militant. He belongs to the Society for Commercial Archeology and claims as his proudest achievement convincing the Department of the Interior in 1984 that the oldest surviving McDonald's, plopped down just 31 years earlier in suburban Los Angeles, deserves inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places...
...they share qualities that Hughes must have seen in Ringwald: a coiled poise, a resilient sense of humor about herself, an openness to emotions. Without forcing feelings, Molly can coax them effortlessly to the surface. Feel bad, Sam? Her face puffs, flushes and blotches; depression looks like an instant allergy. Feel good, Andie? Her face lights up like a neon billboard on Sunset Strip. "She has this terrific ability to express things without saying anything," says Judd Nelson."She lets you see into her for a moment. And then, when she wants to, she turns...
...grew up in Maine and holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from New York City's Fordham University, expects to spend a year acquainting himself with the Southwest's unfamiliar conditions. One of them, a near gale-force desert wind, crashed the party, prompting the new bishop to offer some instant counsel to his flock: "The best thing we could do at this point is go back home...
James S. Kunen was 19 and a Columbia University sophomore when he wrote The Strawberry Statement, a wry account of Columbia's 1968 student strike against the Viet Nam War. The book's instant success transformed Kunen into one of the spokesmen for the rebels of his generation. Since then, Kunen, now 37, has served as a conscientious objector, worked as a public defender in the Washington court system, been married and divorced. Now a senior writer at PEOPLE magazine, he was asked by TIME to comment on what has happened to him and his protesting peers...
...electronics in the brain. Our heads are the most important synthesizers of all," he says. The professor, who came to Harvard 14 years ago, encourages students to do original work. "Rather than attempting to reproduce what has been done before, our emphasis is on trying at each instant to create a new reality," he says. "Our concerts are not finished products, but artistic invention in and of themselves...