Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whether confronting the deep past -- his bourgeois childhood as the son of a stern Lutheran minister and dutifully repressed mother -- or his adult past, where wives, mistresses and children drift almost anonymously through the shadows of his theaters and sound stages, Bergman rarely strikes the customary autobiographical notes of nostalgia and the tranquil acceptance of fate. To him, middle-class morality is a cloak for madness, family life an invitation to distraction and guilt. Neither helps one come to grips with decay, eroticism, violence -- those irrational torments by which the unseen world insists on its presence in our lives...
...quiet, unassuming man, at once set out to establish a modest administrative style, one quite different from the stern, autocratic ways of Chun, who favored elevated, thronelike chairs and sat at a separate desk when meeting with his Cabinet. Roh introduced round tables, which he shares with colleagues and visitors. In his campaign, Roh had insisted that despite his background as a soldier, he was, at heart, "an ordinary...
...does not work equally for everyone, however. Best candidates: men under 40 who have been balding on the crown for ten years or less and who have a moderate amount of hair left. For some reason, the drug does not seem to work on receding hairlines. Says Dr. Robert Stern of Harvard Medical School, who chaired the FDA panel: "The most important thing is to have fuzzy hair left -- fine, light hairs...
Rogaine treatment requires perseverance: the lotion must be applied twice a day for four to six months just to see if it will work. Cost: up to $400. Says Stern: "The chances of substantial results are only one in five, a large investment for a reasonably low chance of real cosmetic benefit." Moreover, if the applications are discontinued, the new hair disappears within a few months and balding continues at its previous pace. Says New York Dermatologist Stephen Kurtin: "The biggest resistance to minoxidil is not that the results may be only fair, but that it is a lifetime commitment...
...discoveries include parts of a 200-ft. stern-wheel steamboat, a 175-ft. wooden coal barge and another 140-ft. wooden barge. These relics excite historians because no large boats of the era, nor even their construction drawings, survive. Contends Archaeologist Leslie Stewart-Abernathy, who heads the project: "When we think about the Mississippi, we've got to get beyond the image of the river gambler and think about the guys who built the boats." Without them, there would have been a lot less life on the once romantic river...