Word: itemizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They are 20 years old, some of them, and still sparkle. Most songs-pop songs generally, rock specifically-dim with age. The present can paralyze the past; anything off the charts sounds like an antique or a novelty item. Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about a group of 48 previously unreleased Beatles performances, found in the BBC vaults and to be broadcast over the Memorial Day weekend on 350 stations, is their insistent presence. Old songs in the present tense, simple, lively and made of magic...
...spender and borrower. No longer does it make sense to go into debt to buy things because Joans can be paid off later in cheaper dollars With a 16.5% prime rate, borrowing is very expensive. And since prices are rising slowly, there is little chance that the item bought will be worth a lot more in the future. Says Joel Crabtree, a senior vice president of Chicago's Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co.: "There's less premium on holding hard assets, like diamonds, antiques, artworks or gold. Now would seem to be the time to seek...
Waterbeds, a splashy sales item among the flower children of the '60s, have found a new constituency: premature babies. Studies have shown that preemies sleep better, grow faster and generally seem more contented when their incubators are fitted with waterbeds. Researchers at Stanford University also found that gently oscillating waterbeds reduce breathing difficulties and encourage normal heartbeat in sleeping preemies, perhaps because the pulsations mimic some aspects of the uterine environment. Preemie intensive care units, notes one researcher, tend to be "noisy, bright, loud places with constant activity. Anyone who has spent time there can see that the babies...
...haven't written The Crimson since I was a freshman in 1947, but, on a brief visit to Cambridge recently. I read your item about the response of the Gay Students Association to statements by Edward Pattullo, director of the Center for Behavioral Sciences. I hope the GSA will not be alone in its objection to Mr. Pattullo's Pattullo's suggesting that, to the extent that homosexuality is environmentally controlled, society has an interest in discouraging it. In societies whose survival depended on the manufacture of sufficient warriors to go die in battle for the good of the tribe...
Right now, about the only thing that victims can do is to hope that morality, like software, may become an item to duplicate and pass along to friends...