Word: sicklied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...role makes it seem contradictory that Goya was both a court artist and an inspired, tragic social critic. Efforts to see him in pop-Marxist terms as "an artist of the people" miss the point. Goya had many disillusioned moments, and by the last years of his life, when -- sick and old and bitterly disappointed by the betrayal of the liberal Spanish constitution at the hands of that squat reactionary King, Fernando VII -- he moved to France, they became a continuous pessimism. He never idealized the Spanish proletariat: it was el populacho, the 18th century "mob," a many-headed beast...
...many as 500,000 adolescents nationwide -- have used steroids. Nearly a third of the students surveyed took the drugs to acquire that brawny look. Declares "Ian," a 5-ft. 6-in., 115-lb. 17-year-old from Boston, who has been popping pills for three months: "I'm sick of being small. I want to be bigger...
...Medecins sans Frontieres, Medecins du Monde and Aide Medicale Internationale -- whose aim is to bring medical assistance to troubled and neglected corners of the world, without regard to political orientation or government approval. The need these groups serve is illustrated by an M.S.F. poster showing a doctor examining a sick child. Beneath the photograph is the caption IN THEIR WAITING ROOM: MORE THAN 2 BILLION PEOPLE...
There' s a broken life for every star on Hollywood Boulevard, and for $25 the Grave Line Tour will show you lots of them. Just jump in Greg Smith' s Cadillac hearse and follow the yellow- sick road...
Brinker did not set out to become a savior. In 1984 a young architect she knew fell ill. "I'd never had any experience with AIDS," she recalls. "I was appalled at how quickly he became too sick to take care of himself." She and other friends formed a rotating caretaker group. But, occasionally, one would forget about his or her shift, and the dying architect went hungry until the next shift arrived. "I realized then," Brinker recalls, "that there were people throughout the city who didn't have my friend's support...