Word: normale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Incoming House Speaker Newt Gingrichmade an effort to be more statesmanlike in an interview aired last night, apologizing for calling the Clinton White House staff a bunch of "McGoverniks" after Election Day and ruin his "enemies of normal people" remark. "The truth is, occasionally, I'm not very smart," Gingrich told Dateline NBC. "I probably need to be 30 percent less pugnacious and 50 less negative." Meanwhile, the first comment's indirect target, former Senator and Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern, responded in a column in The St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "I fully welcome the scorn of Gingrich. I have...
Then there was Smith's behavior. What would be a "normal" reaction for a parent faced with the loss of her children? She might have found a natural ally in Marc Klaas, who since the kidnapping and murder of his daughter Polly Klass in October 1993 has devoted himself to helping parents in a similar plight. He flew to South Carolina with Jeanne Boylan, a cognitive artist with a background in psychology who has produced remarkably accurate suspect sketches in the Klaas case and many others. The sketch of the carjacker was so generic as to be useless, and Boylan...
...Troglitazone, an experimental drug for treating the most common form of diabetes, may also help prevent the disease in nondiabetic obese people who have trouble metabolizing sugars even though they produce normal amounts of insulin...
...able to stop worrying about cholesterol. Of nearly 1,000 men and women in that age group who were studied, one-third of the women and one-sixth of the men had high cholesterol levels but did not suffer any more heart attacks than those with normal or low levels of cholesterol. Some experts noted, however, that too few patients were involved in the study for it to be conclusive...
...child's imagination in creating her personal world. The 1977 new wave classic Eraserhead subjects a version of Shelley's myth to the vision of its own demented genius--none other than David Lynch. The film is an hallucinatory ride through the disturbingly strange visions of the disturbingly normal Henry Spencer (James Nance). Finding himself briefly with a wife, Henry feels obligated to care for the creature which is the alleged product of their union when she leaves him. He's the sort of guy you would take home to your parents, if your whole family was profoundly psychopathic...