Word: spiral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gentle readers: in the past few weeks, many of you have written in, asking to be taught "how to create the perfect fro-yo cone." Some seem to think that the "perfect" cone is some sort of man-sized frozen spiral, a structural wonder whose height is bounded only by the distance from the fro-yo spout to the floor. In today's Dairy Queen world, such an attitude is not surprising--which doesn't make such twisted monstrosities any less apalling. These "comes" are not created so much as they are mindlessly pumped out by the drone-like yogurt...
...night through downtown Manhattan's glam disco scene. Sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll--and a guy who discovers that he really loved his mother too. If you can get past the notion that Bright Lights, Big City, Jay McInerney's 1984 novel about a Manhattan yuppie on a downward spiral, is a time capsule whose time has passed, it's actually not a bad idea for a musical...
...Needless to say, the whole thing gets horribly depressing. What did you expect? But Mullan evokes Joe's momentary relapse mesmerizingly--the image of a riff opening awesomely to inner infernal domains about describes it--and it's sudden and wrenching, more than a predictable downward spiral style. It's something to look forward to, as a change of pace from the sentimental (though heartfelt) scenes between Goodall and Mullan...
...course it couldn't last. In late 1996 the warp-speed growth in many of these nations began to slow--an inevitable turn in the business cycle. But the stutter was enough to panic a few investors, who headed for the exits. That set off a rapid spiral of defaults that became known as the Asian Contagion. Thailand's problems quickly became Indonesia's, then Korea's, in a dangerous daisy chain that is still looping together--witness last month's shuddering devaluation of the Brazilian real...
...Gephardt who made the Democrats' pre-Christmas offer of peace ring across the capital. "We need to start healing; we need to start binding up our wounds; we need to end this downward spiral that will end with the death of our representative democracy," Gephardt said as he urged in vain for the chance to vote on censure. Linking Livingston with Clinton, Gephardt said, "Our Founding Fathers created a system of government of men, not of angels. We are on the brink of the abyss. The only way we stop this insanity is through the force of our own will...