Word: lunges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have lost several fortunes, but he never lost his sense of humor. At a press conference a month after the transplant, Mantle spotted noted collector Barry Halper and asked, "Barry, what did you pay for my old liver?" The prognosis for Mantle was hopeful then. But an undetected lung cancer began to spread, and on Aug. 4 he re-entered the hospital...
HOSPITALIZED. MICKEY MANTLE, 63, Baseball Hall of Famer, this time for anemia caused by chemotherapy; in Dallas. Barely two months after undergoing a liver transplant, Mantle revealed he had begun treatment for cancer that had spread from his diseased liver to his lung (had the cancer been detected earlier, the donor liver would have gone to someone else...
...arts outweighs federal support--$16 to $1--the NEA and NEH would not be missed. This is an illusion. Some American businesses, like Philip Morris, have been very generous in their support of the arts. But this generosity depends on their public relations needs. (If there were no lung cancer or emphysema, the arts would get much less.) Increasingly, these needs are defined as social rather than artistic. Hence the shift, in private philanthropy, to race- and gender-based programs, meant to make art what theatrical director Robert Brustein calls "a conduit for social justice" rather than...
...there are times that I feel very liberal. When I read Jesse Helms' latest comments, for example. (mmm. By his logic, do people who smoke Carolina tobacco deserve lung cancer?) Or when Bob Dole starts ranting about violence in Hollywood. Or when Senator Exon starts pontificating about the dangers of Internet porn. You know. The times when some conservative person or group says or does something utterly idiotic...
DIED. M0RTON L. LEVIN, 91, epidemiologist; in Riverhead, New York. One of the first medical researchers to link tobacco and lung cancer, Levin tracked patients from 1938 to '50 and concluded in a 1950 Journal of the American Medical Association article that lung cancer was more than twice as likely to strike a smoker as a nonsmoker...