Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were connected to death, the heroes to their own cessations, cut down in the prime of their youth and work. Part of the mythic power of the year derives from the mystery of all the possibilities that vanished into death and nothingness. (In October there came an odd, minor coda to the sex and death and disillusion of the '60s, when Jacqueline Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis. Illusion -- Camelot and the rest -- came to disillusion, a passage that was a major theme...
...Wilson's deeper ironies that the callow but decent Julian lacks conviction while the older and more experienced Hunter is full of indecent passion and ambition. Hunter's conquest of Felicity is pure business, part of securing the private papers of James Petworth Lampitt, a deceased minor writer who was a friend of her father's. Hunter succeeds, and by playing up Lampitt's possible suicide and probable homosexuality, turns the life of a justifiably forgotten literary figure into a scandalous best seller. "One accomplishes nothing so stylishly as the thing in which one has no belief," thinks Julian. "Gigolos...
...administered intermittently and with a calcium compound so that the new bone would form gradually and be strong. When the preparation was given to 251 women with spinal-bone loss, bone mass increased 3% to 6% a year and the frequency of vertebral fractures dropped significantly. Side effects were minor and occurred in only 5% of the patients. The treatment has not been shown to work for osteoporosis of the hip or wrist...
...Hollensteiner 14 38-80 .480 0-0.000 17-30 .570 71-5.1 6 693 6.7 Dana Smith 14 20-54 .370 1-4 .25019-27 .700 19-1.4 47 16 604.3 Tedd Evers 7 10-30 .333 4-9 .4406-10 .600 10-1.4 7 4 40 4.3 Mike Minor 3 3-6 .500 0-0 .000 4-4 1.000 1-1.7 2 0 10 3.3 Ian Smith 4 4-15 .270 0-1 .0003-4 .750 9-2.3 6 2 12 3.0 Eric Carter...
...Other minor rule changes included...