Word: frontal
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...Henry Louis Gates is now moving to a new level of engagement," he said. "He is launching a frontal attack on the digital divide...
...pretext for going negative themselves. But now it seems that the party of John Wayne is becoming the party of John Tesh. Bush wails like a cheap car alarm over the most minor incursion--and attacks at the same time. Last Friday he was the first to unleash a frontal-attack ad. And for a year, he's laced every speech with rhetoric aimed at Gore's integrity and concluded most of those speeches with a pledge to "restore honor and integrity to the White House." What's that if not personal...
...Giuliani may have been too knee-in-the-groin nasty to attract all the anti-Hillary votes, the fresh-faced Lazio could be just too aw-shucks nice, a slice of Velveeta on white in a state with a decided taste for roquefort on rye, a place where full-frontal egomaniacs like Ed Koch, Bella Abzug and Al D'Amato have thrived and from where larger-than-life figures like Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Robert Kennedy have held court. Even Chuck Schumer is a strong cup of coffee. Not since John Lindsay have New Yorkers bought into boyish...
Before setting out on my memory odyssey, I dialed up a few experts to learn how common memory complaints such as mine are and how serious they could become. On both counts, I came away reassured. While the brain stores memories in a number of areas, it is the frontal lobe that retrieves them and puts them to work. For all its data-crunching power, the frontal lobe is a fragile thing. Everything from fatigue to hormonal changes to simple cellular wear and tear can cause it to falter. "Frontal-lobe processes change in all people as they age," says...
This I buy. Gage, by dint of significant trauma to his frontal lobes, did actually become a different person. But short of being shish-kebabbed on a tamping iron, I'm skeptical...