Word: feels
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...fantastic Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. (Between Harry, boy bands and PlayStation 2, it was a very good year to be 12.) In architecture, Frank Gehry's baroque fantasies reached a mainstream audience through the Experience Music Project in Seattle. In the hit film Erin Brockovich, a feel-good fantasy posed as the real world...
...Charlie Brown was something new in comics: a real person, with a real psyche and real problems. The reader knew him, knew his fears, sympathized with his sense of inferiority and alienation. When Charlie Brown first confessed, "I don't feel the way I'm supposed to feel," he was speaking for people everywhere in Eisenhower's America, especially for a generation of solemn, precociously cynical college students, who "inhabited a shadow area within the culture," the writer Frank Conroy recalled. They were the last generation to grow up, as Schulz had, without television, and they read Charlie Brown...
...tough sell. Voters would take a tax cut - who doesn't want more money? - but the size scares them. Republicans have always depended on tax cuts, but know that the size makes them vulnerable to getting out-empathized by Democrats. And Democrats know that Bill Clinton gave small, feel-good targeted tax cuts a very good name...
...Religion centers me. It makes me prioritize my life. I know there is something out there, and we feel humbled...
AGING GRACEFULLY According to reports in Psychology and Aging, older adults are more likely to live longer if they feel that they have control over their lives or fulfill roles that they find important. In a national study, elderly Americans who strongly identified with being a parent, grandparent or care provider tended to adopt more healthful behavior and took better care of themselves. Folks who felt that they had no control were more likely to smoke, drink and suffer from obesity--all risk factors for early death...