Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remember what a struggle painting is." That sympathetic view comes from TIME's art critic, Robert Hughes, who this week offers a provocative assessment of contemporary U.S. art. Hughes is eminently qualified for his subject. He was the creator and host of the 1981 eight-part PBS series The Shock of the New: The Life and Death of Modern Art, and its forthcoming sequel, American Visions. In addition, he is a two-time winner of the prestigious Frank Jewett Mather Award for distinction in art criticism...
Almost out of the blue, toxic shock syndrome appeared in the U.S. in the late 1970s, spreading fear among women and baffling scientists. The disease, which reached its peak in 1980, when 890 cases were reported, occurred primarily in menstruating women, though men and children could also be affected. Toxic shock could strike with appalling speed, progressing in a matter of hours from fever and dizziness to a strange, sunburn-like rash and a drop in blood pressure so severe that the victim might go into shock. For about 4% of patients, TSS proved fatal. Scientists quickly linked the disease...
...magnesium link may help explain why toxic shock typically occurs on the fourth day of a woman's period, when the menstrual flow has diminished. During the previous days, the volume of fluid is greater, and, Kass believes, there is probably enough unabsorbed magnesium present to keep toxin production in check...
...Alabama law, expressed "great surprise," given that the court seemed to be abandoning its recent inclination to "accommodate" religion. It had done so, for example, in cases upholding legislative chaplains and government- sponsored Nativity scenes. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's sixth vote concurring with the majority was another shock to conservatives. Her failure to support a more pro-prayer position, as did Dissenters Warren Burger, William Rehnquist and Byron White, is "staggering," said Dan Alexander, president of the Mobile County school board at the time Jaffree sued and now head of the national Save Our Schools movement. "What good...
...every person saved, however, several others were lost. "We fear that many bodies may have drifted out to sea, making it impossible to recover them," said a navy spokesman. Some of those who were rescued died later of exposure or shock. Even those who endured every one of the dangers found scant relief after the storm had passed. In a relief camp in Urirchar, Taslim Ali wished to do nothing but mourn his lost son. "How can I live in this world?" he asked again and again and again. Elsewhere, a boy, saved after he had seen both his parents...