Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Americans have long been the butt of the rest of the world's jokes for embracing the latest nostrums and potions, from patent medicines to vitamin E. But in recent years, argues , Barsky, Americans have taken their concern for good health to extremes, fretting about every random ache and pain. Over the past 15 years, he reports, polls show people are complaining more about symptoms of illness; those who say they are satisfied with their health dropped from 61% in the 1970s to 55% in the mid-1980s. Americans seem to be on the verge of becoming, as Physician- Philosopher...
...sense of ethnicity confirms belonging; it may not reduce the pain of otherness, but it helps one face it. This show is an exaltation, not just a symptom, of diversity. And of course the diversity is internal as well: the artists themselves are a broadly diverse...
...athletes in casual esteem. The basketball star Michael Jordan, for one ("Anyone who can fly deserves respect"), or the baseball and football player Bo Jackson. Tyson says of Jackson, "I love that he's able to do both, but I heard him say that he doesn't like the pain of football. That makes me wonder about him. Football is a hurting business...
Baker insists that ennui was not responsible for his resignation, which he attributed to personal reasons. Joy, his wife of 37 years, is a recovering alcoholic who has undergone surgery for lung cancer, gastrointestinal problems and other ailments. Since his wife's recent hospitalization for chronic back pain, Baker has been spending more time shuttling from Washington to her bedside in Knoxville...
That, however, is a future prospect that will do little soon to ease the Pentagon's pain. And pain there will be, whoever is elected this fall. But Carlucci, limited as his opening moves may have been, has at least had the courage to point out the devilish dilemmas ahead. As a fresh and energetic figure in an Administration rapidly drawing to its close, he has brightened his already lustrous reputation -- and just possibly his future as well...