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...oldest old are healthier than the merely old in several respects. Heart disease and stroke, for instance, have their greatest im-pact in the 50s through 80s for men and about 10 years later for women. Those who make it past the danger zones are less apt to be stricken at all. Similarly, Alzheimer's disease usually picks off its victims by the mid-80s. Perls found that men in their 90s outperformed octogenarians in tests of mental function...
...reflection on the Vietnam War. Kitaj differs from both, for he wanted to paint his images all the way through, not transfer them out of mass media. It's odd that in the midst of all the talk about "appropriation" that went on through the '80s and into the '90s, Kitaj's name so seldom came up in New York: for this is a painter mad about quotation, about scouring the landfill of 20th century image-memory for fragments that could work as emblems and poetic signs...
...generation behind his. After so much photo-based figure painting in which the actual scrutiny of the living body, in all its resistant complexity, played no part at all, Kitaj's figural art posed serious questions that American artists, in particular, were unwilling to face in the '70s and '80s...
...third generation of revolutionaries, the software hackers of the early '80s, created the application, education and entertainment programs for personal computers. Typical was Mitch Kapor, a former transcendental-meditation teacher, who gave us the spreadsheet program Lotus 1-2-3, which ensured the success of IBM's Apple-imitating PC. Like most computer pioneers, Kapor is still active. His Electronic Frontier Foundation, which he co- founded with a lyricist for the Grateful Dead, lobbies successfully in Washington for civil rights in cyberspace. In the years since Levy's book, a fourth generation of revolutionaries has come to power. Still abiding...
...current decade really will be venerated by future chroniclers of pop culture, it may well be because the '90s have produced an appealing stable of new actors who stand in smart contrast to the so-called Brat Pack of the '80s, the cliquish band of young stars that included Nelson, Rob Lowe, Ally Sheedy and various sons of Martin Sheen. The '90s newcomers also provide a downtown alternative to married-with-children superstars like Demi Moore or Tom Cruise. Brad Pitt, Ethan Hawke, Winona Ryder, Uma Thurman and a handful of others, all in their 20s and early 30s, share...