Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most kids, though, lament that their parents aren't much help at all on sexual matters. They either avoid the subject, miss the mark by starting the discussion too long before or after the sexual encounter, or just plain stonewall them. "I was nine when I asked my mother the Big Question," says Michael, in Detroit. "I'll never forget. She took out her driver's license and pointed to the line about male or female. 'That is sex,' she said." Laurel, a 17-year-old in Murfreesboro, Tenn., wishes her parents had taken more time with her to shed...
...story, true or not, conveys the essence of how Barry Goldwater saw himself and how his admirers, liberals and conservatives, often came to see him too. Americans like their conservatives to be curmudgeonly--irascible, unblinkered, plain-talking tellers of uncomfortable truths, with a keen eye for hypocrisy. Curmudgeons are amusing, colorful and, most important, utterly harmless. Mr. Conservative's public career spanned 40 years, and for most of them he managed to be thought curmudgeonly--almost universally enjoyed, like a prickly old teddy bear you can't help hugging...
...that resembled paintings. Then came modernism, which taught them to rethink the characteristics of their own medium. Sharp focus, accidental arrangements and the just-the-facts stuff that cameras provide became a new path to the supreme fictions of art. Of the pleasures cameras give us, the transfiguration of plain reality is the most indispensable. It implies that the world is more than it seems--which, after all, it may well be. It's a paradox too lovely to ignore and too profound to solve. These are six great photographers who have pointed the way into its deepest parts...
...black women, Aretha is the voice that made all the unsaid sayable, powerful and lyrical," the writer Thulani Davis once observed. "She was just more rockin', more earnest, just plain more down front than the divas of jazz...Aretha let her raggedy edges show, which meant she could be trusted with ours...
Kiley, a Pforzheimer resident, is from Jamaica Plain, a southwest Boston neighborhood. She graduated in 1993 from Boston Latin School, a competitive public examination school...