Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Afterlife and Other Stories by John Updike (Knopf). Again, elder writesman Updike proves his durability by turning out yet another splendid collection of elegant short stories about -- no, no, stay with him -- Wasp geezers who golf. Now and then, unblocked metaphors rise up shrieking: one duffer is resigned "to a golfing mediocrity that would poke its way down the sloping dogleg of decrepitude to the level green of death." Fore? Sure, but Lord, how that senior citizen can write...
...days and several NFL lifetimes ago, could have forecast the Pats' meteoric rise to football stardom, save perhaps the looney in the Steve Grogan-autographed jersey out in Foxboro or Fall River or somewhere else within range of the "Hub's" almighty...
...kind of like when you raise your own grade by five points, only to see the mean rise by eight...
...this is on the "new" Beatles album Live at the BBC, a two-disc CD of 56 songs the band played live on the radio. In its raw comprehensiveness, Live at the BBC (supervised by Beatles record producer George Martin) documents the group's vertiginous rise in a three-year period that marked both the birth of pop music's international era and a sweet autumnal bloom in rock's age of innocence...
...research shows minorities living in poor urban areas are more likely to die from asthma than any other group, largely contributing to the rise in asthma deaths nationwide since the late 1970s. But the deaths cannot be blamed on more carbon monoxide and ozone clogging the air, since air standards have improved in some American cities. Instead indoor allergens and difficulty in getting health care may have more to do with why asthma is more deadly for the urban poor...