Word: things
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...average age of a Saturn worker is 38, vs. 43 for the whole company. Saturn's work force is 20% female, slightly higher than the portion at GM as a whole. Many workers say they were drawn by the prospect that Saturn could compete on an equal footing. "The thing that most interested me was the idea that we could beat the Japanese. That's why I came here," says James Archibald, 34, a line worker in body fabrication, who pulled up stakes in Alabama to take his chances at Saturn. Archibald and his fellow workers share an almost religious...
...return home. He was probably correct: four years later he was exiled from the Soviet Union. Soviet-born poet Joseph Brodsky was already in exile in New York City when he won the prize for literature in 1987. Foreign Ministry spokesman Gennadi Gerasimov thought it was "a good thing" that world attention would be focused on Russian poetry, but he was sour about Brodsky, who had been sentenced to a work camp in 1963 for the crime of "parasitism." "The tastes of the Nobel Committee are strange sometimes," said Gerasimov...
...comes the offscreen retort. In the tense few seconds before lift-off, a voice pipes up, "Did I leave the water running?" A scientist leans into a pair of earphones, trying to pick up a weak radio signal; the invented line is "I can't see a thing." Not since Woody Allen's What's Up, Tiger Lily? has anyone had so much fun with bad movies...
After thoughts of art come the practical things in life. As soon as he has learned to drive, Kissin plans to get a car. A girlfriend may take longer; currently he travels with his mother and his teacher. Relaxation takes the form of playing the rags of Scott Joplin and reading Pushkin and Tolstoy. He rejects the notion that he is still too young to understand the depths of his art. "For me, it's natural," he says. "Please don't take this as being immodest, but with my potential, I could have already done more than I have." Given...
...couple's sex life; there's the thrill of the forbidden but none of the danger of, say, an affair. "Frankly, I'd wonder about anyone with a camera who hadn't thought of doing it," offers Kate Wachs, a Chicago psychologist. "It's usually a fun thing done by people who have absolute trust in each other, are relaxed about their sexuality and adventuresome. It's the equivalent of making love on the beach or the kitchen table...