Word: warmers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the red light of the television camera winks on, most people also light up, becoming warmer and more animated than their everyday selves. But when Faye Wattleton, the president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, sits before the camera's eye -- something she is doing with ever greater frequency these days -- she turns chillier and more controlled than her already well-disciplined self. Her speech becomes stricter, her smile tighter. Wattleton monitors herself closer than the camera does, for she is intent on being nothing less than perfect, as though a single dangling modifier or wayward statistic will bring...
...Beaver come to serious harm in a drive-in with a giant ice-cream cone for a roof? George Jetson, it seems, could have been the master architect of the whole doo-wop decade. Granted, one thing to be said for those stylistic oddities is that they extended a warmer welcome than much of today's franchised glitz. Says Arthur Krim of the Society for Commercial Archeology, which studies America's commercial history: "To look at a diner or gas station was a link to a smaller, more friendly world." But not necessarily a more visually pleasing...
...forms would suffocate. Climatologist Tyler Volk of New York University argues that life controls earth's temperature as well. In a study recently published in the British journal Nature, he and colleague David Schwartzman asserted that, without the cooling effects of living things, earth would be 80 degrees F warmer...
...trail got warmer this fall. A blond guy with a funny accent was shooting hoops at Hellenic College. He dressed in green, but he wasn't that good. He couldn't be Larry...
...year-old party patriarch Deng Xiaoping. When Jiang, the mayor of Shanghai, was selected in June to replace ousted General Secretary Zhao Ziyang, most Chinese were surprised. An engineer who lacks both a political power base and ties to the increasingly influential military, Jiang was considered a seat warmer ultimately destined for lesser things...