Word: ironic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...finds. It was far from Matisse's mind to impose an artificial certainty on the flux of vision. The resolution of his great 1914 still life, Goldfish and Palette, is provisional; on either side of the black central column things teeter and lean; even the curlicues of the black iron balcony seem held in a fragile equilibrium...
...Cambridge City Council--with its restrictions on franchises--is on the side of places like Bartley's, even as McDonald's slips under the iron curtain into Russia and Eastern Europe...
...Shadows begin to lengthen across the courtyard as one last child, a small cross-eyed boy with no parents to wash the red dust out of his matted hair, has his gourd filled and wanders distractedly out the gate. Moments later the iron doors swing shut...
...SULLIVAN TOLD YOU SO. MORE THAN A decade ago, the South Carolina medical researcher came up with a theory explaining why young women rarely have heart attacks. It isn't that they are protected by the hormone estrogen, as conventional wisdom had it, said Sullivan, but that they lose iron every month during menstrual bleeding. And iron, he believed, promotes heart attacks. Now a study from Finland, published in the American Heart Association journal Circulation, has provided strong evidence that he was right...
...with no obvious evidence of heart disease, were monitored from 1984 through 1989; 51 ended up with heart attacks. It turned out that the second strongest risk factor, after smoking, was the blood level of a protein called ferritin -- and ferritin is a good indicator of overall iron levels. For each 1% increase of blood ferritin, there was more than a 4% increase in heart-attack risk. A ferritin level of 200 or more, compared with the normal 100 to 150, doubled the risk. The mechanism is unclear, but iron may contribute directly to heart-tissue damage as well...