Word: shriveling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dining-room table and the movie screen. This is an anti-Hollywood movie too; everything that was terrific in, say, Top Gun -- the war, the sex, the male bonding -- is found to be toxic here. It is also a one-character story whose lead actor must grow and shrivel, rage and endure in every scene. And Cruise pulls it off. He carries the film heroically, like a soldier bearing a wounded comrade across a battlefield. He is the very best thing in a very big picture...
While cuts in the defense budget are undoubtedly necessary to shrink the country's deficits, the U.S. cannot afford to let its defense-industry base shrivel away. One harmful effect would be reduced domestic competition at every level, from small subcontractors to major suppliers, which would put upward pressure on procurement costs...
...usually in search of employment. While self-reliant, spirited towns like Clay Center are putting up a plucky campaign to bring back jobs and citizens, such communities now find they are threatened by conditions, ranging from global competition to deregulation, that are beyond their control. As the small towns shrivel away, so does a way of life that helped define America's character. The U.S. is gradually becoming a more congested, coastal megalopolis, with an increasingly lonely place in the middle...
Hamlets like Clay Center, Kans., have been sapped by an epic postwar migration to cities and suburbs, a trend that has accelerated in the past decade. As small towns shrivel, so does a way of life that helped define the national character. -- Despite qualms, the U.S. will assist Japan in building the FSX jet. -- The Mommy Track debate: Should motherhood put a woman on a slower career path...
Like Martin Luther (or somebody) -- richly aware that the world might end tomorrow -- I keep planting apple seeds and watching to see how they grow. Some never germinate at all, some pop up about an inch and then slowly shrivel. But there stands outside my window one apple tree that was once a seed and is now more than twice as tall as I am. All it took me to grow it was about 15 years of my life...