Word: righted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that one. Worse. Much worse. A word that can send grown women out of a room shrieking in mortal terror. A word that calls up visions of Richard Simmons in spandex. That's right. Diet...
Once I tried to tell her that I did not think any amount of dieting would make her look like Bob Hope. "This is America," she said. "I have every right to pursue my dream. Some people want to be rocket scientists. I want to be Bob Hope. Now shut up and pass the diet Coke...
...dieting in pursuit of our dreams. This is nothing new. We have been on diets before. In fact, I was on a diet for at least 10 hours a day, every day, for months. Every night, around 11 p.m., right after eating about 16 Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, I went on a diet. And I stayed on that diet religiously until breakfast the next morning. Sometimes I even stayed on it until lunch, especially if I had slept through breakfast...
...self-consciousness is not enough. As a community, we must do what we know is right. The 90's will be here in a few weeks, and , as Harrison says of gender and racial equality, "We can't afford another 10 years of loss...
...Right-to-die questions generate powerful sparks of moral friction. They clash against two basic values, says Daniel Callahan, director of the Hastings Center, an ethics think tank. "One is the sanctity of life, with its religious roots; the other is the technological imperative to do everything possible to save a life. Put together they are like a locomotive running at 100 miles an hour." The sweep of that force troubles many experts. Says George Annas of Boston University's School of Medicine: "The technological imperative obliterates the person altogether. It acts as if the person doesn't exist -- that...