Word: steeled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What an extraordinary article on Christopher Reeve and his battle to walk again after spinal-cord injury [MEDICINE, Aug. 26]. His courage, resolution and wit in the face of enormous physical challenges are truly inspiring. Roger Rosenblatt managed both to humanize and to exalt this man of steel. Many people will be cheering on his progress, both physical and legislative, in the years to come. While he can no longer move freely in the beautiful landscape near his home, Reeve will surely have many exhilarating journeys across the landscape of his mind. LAURA KELLY Pleasantville, New York Via E-mail...
Jack French Kemp wears the monogram JFK discreetly sewn onto the cuffs of his starched, high-collared shirts. His steel-gray hair looks just like the other J.F.K.'s might have, had he lived to old age, or even Kemp's 61. But in crafting his own political persona, Jack Kemp, a self-described "bleeding-heart conservative," superimposed the ideas of another political model on the style of John F. Kennedy. Kemp melded Ronald Reagan's sunny supply-side philosophy and belief in the power of free markets with Kennedy's youthful vigor and populist-patrician manner to create...
...became angry, lonely and, most important to skinhead recruiters, vulnerable. "I needed to lash out," he explains. "They look for young, angry kids who need a family." He dropped out of school and began meeting skinheads hanging around the punk-rock scene. The trappings--bomber jacket, shaved head and steel-toed Dr. Martens boots--and hard-line beliefs soon followed. "These were good guys, I thought," he says now. "I thought I was being patriotic. We would drink and fight, try to clean up America that way." At one party he attacked a white youth who was dating a black...
...technical boys prefer to call it. But with the institution of smooth wheels--and here's the key reason why the wheel became broken--the cogs were all cut off. Just hacksawed and sanded over. And there they were, floating about the machine, like some half-witted pieces of steel, and then, then there they went getting caught up, in, about, behind, all around, and even, you know where...
Tragedy struck in 1990. A semitrailer slammed into the tour bus Estefan was traveling in, breaking her back. She narrowly escaped paralysis (doctors inserted two 8-inch-long steel rods into her spine), but recovery was arduous. Still, less than a year after the accident, Estefan was back onstage--singing and dancing. Says Jorge Casas, Estefan's longtime bass player and musical director: "That alone should give you an idea of how incredibly driven and hardworking...