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...moment and take a walk on any American beach. Casually, discreetly, observe the flesh (this is not a gender thing; we're talking every last, ever loving body on the sand). Now, don't you think that last summer, or the summer before, or especially back in the '80s, there were fewer paunches out there that jiggled like flan? And didn't we just go through a spell where the buttocks seemed hitched to a spot just a notch or two higher up the spine...
...what is happening as much as the disturbing health surveys that began to emerge early in this decade. There are those who say, "We are getting older and letting go, naturally"; there are others who declare, "Nonsense! We have turned our backs on the no-pain no-gain '80s -- our lack of will is making us, uh, pillowy." Just go with the age theorists for a moment: unless you are the issue of Mick Jagger out of Twiggy, you will soften, droop and bulge with the years, as muscle gradually turns to fat. There is no argument there. The nation...
Ever since the go-go '80s gave way to the gone-gone '90s, a certain swath of the press has been itching for a revival of glamorous corporate takeovers. There's no business as sexy as show business, and this summer the wishful murmurs in New York City and Los Angeles have proliferated, become louder, zanier: Bill Gates is buying Whittle Communications, Disney is buying Whittle, Paramount is buying Viacom and its MTV Networks, Ted Turner is buying a movie studio . . . And, of course, Bill Cosby is buying...
...frenetic '80s infatuation with stimulants has become the mellower '90s flirtation with depressants. Heroin, which has a calming effect, is gaining on crack, which produces high agitation. Some drug experts sense a sociological sea change. "It's really relevant that in the '80s the drug of choice was one that the second you did it, you wanted more," says Carlo McCormick, an editor at a culture and fashion monthly who was the host of LSD parties in New York City in the '80s. "At this point with the current crop of drugs, you're set for the night." Others have...
...savings and loan crisis. The B.C.C.I. caper. Insider trading. Think of all the notorious business scandals that briefly enriched white-collar crooks during the greedy '80s. All those financial fiascoes might have been prevented with a simple lie-detector test: golf...