Word: destructive
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even his own business was constructed so that it would self-destruct when he died...
...comedy into the modern age, and who consumed himself in the process. These days, not too many people subscribe to the Lenny-as-martyr-for-free-speech theory; while he did fall victim to repression all over America, his personal life was tortured enough to put him on auto-destruct without outside help. In this film, made shortly before his death from an overdose in 1966, you can see both of these elements--the piercing and hysterically funny comedy/social analysis that was considered obscene and Bruce's horrible physical condition. He didn't always look like that; that's visible...
...lesson, as University of Southern California Economist Arthur Laffer has shown in the so-called Laffer Curve, is that when taxes go up, economic activity goes down. Empires from Rome to Britain reached their fullest flower when their taxes were low, Wriston remarks, and started to self-destruct as taxes rose. Americans feel uneasy about their economy, partly because federal, state and local governments tax away 29% of the gross national product. Warns Wriston: "We are getting very close to the point where high taxes will cause the economy to deteriorate...
...Gelsey sped through every challenge of the choreography, the visual equivalent of the rippling Chopin score. Though some in those days found her work rather cold, reservations never centered on her talent. The question was not whether she could make it to the top but whether she would self-destruct first. For her fame within dance's inner circle rests not just on her skill but on her ability to take a hard road and make it much, much harder. "I was a compulsive worker," she says, "even at eight...
...essence of the phenomenon under study here. On the one hand, you are dealing with a mass of tangled metal marking the deaths of otherwise unknown people, while on the other hand you become personally involved with the drawn-out spectacle of a human being operating on an auto-destruct frequency. You find yourself reduced to the conclusion that the ingredient of empathy has come into play at some point during the vigil, even if the precise reasons accounting for your continued presence persist in eluding...