Word: wente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...virus roars back--except sometimes it doesn't. Last week researchers at the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center reported on four patients who started taking cocktail therapy early and then took a cocktail break. In two of the patients, the virus rebounded and remained at high levels until they went back on their medications. But in the other two, intriguingly, the virus spiked briefly and then went into hiding--staying below detectable levels for at least 14 months...
...Sandy Koufax of wrestling or the man who enters the ring blowing smoke through his nostrils, but you probably don't think of him as 285 lbs. of pure animal lover. Last week, however, Goldberg traded in his bikini briefs and leather boots for a suit and went to Capitol Hill to protest cockfighting and dogfighting. "I know when I step into the ring, that's my choice," he testified at a congressional briefing, "but these animals, they have no choice." Goldberg says Steve Largent, the Representative from his home state of Oklahoma, one of only three states where cockfighting...
Death of A Salesman got plenty of attention right from the start. When it opened on Broadway in February 1949, the advance buzz was intense, the critics mostly raved (though TIME's Louis Kronenberger complained about its "inadequate artistry" and "sometimes stolid prose"), and the play went on to win both a Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize. It catapulted Arthur Miller to the top rank of American playwrights and has made perhaps a firmer dent in our consciousness than any other drama written for the American stage. So when the play celebrates its 50th anniversary this week with...
...Family, politics defined personalities. If one's politics went wrong, friendships might die unpleasant deaths. In Ex-Friends: Falling Out with Allen Ginsberg, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Lillian Hellman, Hannah Arendt, and Norman Mailer (Free Press; 244 pages; $25), Podhoretz, 69, has set down a fierce and gossipy record of his expired relationships. His stories amount to a personal diary of American political ideas from the end of World War II to the present...
...just woke up one morning and went to speak to my mother and scared us both to death...