Word: older
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...detachment (inquisitive Carrie), aggression (lusty Samantha), caution (timid Charlotte) and neurosis (tense Miranda, played by Cynthia Nixon with a smile as brittle and quivery as the crust on a creme brulee). They're looking for not just love but also victory, over male entitlement, over a culture that despises older single women and over myths they can't compete with. In a pointed scene, the four watch a video in which a woman climaxes two seconds into a sex scene. "No wonder men are so lost," Miranda says. "They have no idea there's more work involved." City...
...that, we need to stay connected to our own families. Elsewhere on this page, we report that older Americans who attend weekly religious services live longer than those who do not--a result of the "social support" they get, say researchers. I'll bet the researchers would find similar benefits among those who get support from extended families. We'll never turn back the clock to keep families from scattering. But parents can help by telling their kids stories about their grandparents, aunts and cousins, and by keeping the relatives informed of the kids' latest activities and interests...
...Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing, published this spring by a new writer, Melissa Bank, made the New York Times best-seller list. Another spring collection, For The Relief of Unbearable Urges, by 29-year-old Nathan Englander, has also done very well, placing among Amazon.com's top books. Older, more established writers have had luck too. Annie Proulx's newest collection of strikingly uncommercial short stories, Close Range, has sold nearly 100,000 copies. Scribner, the book's publisher, would have considered half that number a success. And at Knopf, senior editor Anne Close says short-story collections such...
...University law school. She landed a job at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which her mother loved and lived across the street from. She rented an apartment on the West Side with three roommates. She partied ever so lightly and dated a writer for two years before meeting an older man, Edwin Schlossberg, an eclectically brilliant polymorph, an author and museum designer, whom her mother adored. Schlossberg was 13 years older than Caroline, almost the same age difference between Jack and Jackie. She had as private a wedding as a Kennedy could have, registering her Luneville Old Strasbourg china...
...trashing speakers and other equipment in what some witnesses described as a reaction to the inflated prices the crowd had endured over three days of peaceful partying. In an action unthinkable back in ?69, organizers then called in the police to secure the area. The reaction of an older generation of Woodstock fans may have been epitomized by one 44-year-old Massachusetts man who died of a heart attack. Then again, they didn?t have to pay $4 for a pretzel back...