Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...newcomer should have known better, of course. He should have realized that the corsage is as dead as the darning egg. His excuse was that after seven years abroad he had moved from Paris to Los Angeles. And as everyone knows, the distance between the Rue de la Paix and the Pacific Coast Highway is measured not in flying hours but in light-years. Catapulted from the European fixation with the past into the Californian intoxication with the future, the returning expatriate felt he had been gone for half a century, and sometimes that he had been born yesterday...
Their one-liners not only reflect but can even help define the national mood. "When you see Jay Leno consistently making fun of a politician and getting laughs, you know the politician's probably finished," says Torie Clarke, press secretary to Republican Senator John McCain and a well-known Washington joke broker. The onslaught of one-liners about John Tower's reported drinking and womanizing helped scuttle his nomination for Secretary of Defense. Relentless gags about the Exxon oil spill undoubtedly aggravated the company's public relations disaster and spurred pressure for White House action. Deposed Speaker Jim Wright...
...quandary. But most of his entries could not be written by any other satirist at any other period: "The most delightful introduction you can make is to introduce an important person to someone he or she is going to find sexually interesting . . . you march Kiki over to your well-known friend. 'Antonio, you're going to love this girl. She once made Warren Beatty bleed out the ears...
Researchers have known for some time that people may harbor the AIDS virus without showing symptoms or even producing telltale antibodies. But the duration of such latent infections has been uncertain. Now a study has shown that some people may carry the AIDS virus for three years or longer without its being detected by widely used antibody screening tests. If the results are confirmed, they could mean that latent AIDS infection is more common than was once believed...
...America's best-known woman painter sums...