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Vigor was the byword of the Kennedy years. After the wrinkled decorum of Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy's America would feature people like him, the kind whose hair waved in the wind as they scrimmaged on the lawn at Hyannis Port, Mass. But for more than a decade now, as biographers have burrowed under the New Frontier, another J.F.K. has come into the picture. That would be the one with a multitude of serious illnesses whose life was a hidden ordeal of pills and injections, the one whose severe chronic back pain led him eventually to find...
...early as 1937, to relieve his colitis, an ulcerous inflammation of the upper bowel. Their heavy long-term use can promote osteoporosis--progressive bone disintegration. They also suppress the body's immune system, leading to the kind of serious infections Kennedy frequently suffered. But other common side effects are hair that stays thick and dark, plus skin that turns the yellow-gold of a permanent suntan. Another would be intensified sexual drive. All of which suggest that Kennedy's very Kennedy-ness was partly a side effect of his medication...
...regular 59¢ non-express line of middle-class peasants waiting to be scanned, and a few of the ruling elite came sashaying along the other side of the rope to the head of our line--it was line jumping, government sanctioned--and two hefty gentlemen with helmet hair and dangly cell phones butted in front of me as if by divine right and dumped their bags and laptops on the conveyor and forged ahead without a nod or a smile. It felt more than unpleasant; it felt un-American. But this is a Midwesterner talking. We were brought...
...outgoing president is Japanese), the Russians (because the Russians will use any excuse to get out of Russia) and 1,800 mainland Chinese delegates wearing Jiang Zemin glasses. It resembled the U.N. from the 1970s: heavy brows, bulky suits, unfashionable eyewear, few Americans, fewer women and even less hair. I felt uncomfortably attractive...
...Harvard senior swimmers dyed their hair crimson in a show of school spirit to motivate the underclassmen...