Word: ax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which leaves little room for professional comedians, let alone filmmakers with a polemical ax to bury in some foolish politician's scalp. How can they parody something that is already the lowest form of public discourse...
...ax just keeps falling on the beleaguered American worker. In a new round of layoffs that underscored the weakness of the economy last week, three major oil companies announced painful business restructurings. Amoco said it will cut 8,500 jobs, or nearly 16% of its work force, as it abandons unproductive oil fields and writes off other assets. Unocal plans to eliminate 1,100 of its 17,000 jobs worldwide, mostly in the U.S. And Mobil said it is paring 2,000 salaried jobs, or 9.5% of that group. The energy giants joined such diverse blue-chip companies as Hughes...
...Secrets of the Universe may have to wait. Last week the House voted to ax most of next year's $483.7 million funding for the superconducting supercollider, designed to be the world's biggest atom smasher. The collider is meant to reveal the mysteries of the sub-sub-atomic world by crashing particles together inside an 86-km (54-mile) oval tunnel that will literally surround the town of Waxahachie, Texas. But it also bears the world's biggest price tag: $8.3 billion all told, and rising. That was too super for even the House...
...financially strapped states, required by law to balance their budget, have taken the ax to welfare. In the past year, about 40 states have reduced or frozen benefits, and many have tightened eligibility requirements. Among them, Michigan and Ohio have cut off all payments to 170,000 recipients of general assistance, which provides aid to impoverished single adults, and California Governor Pete Wilson has proposed to reduce AFDC payments as much...
Wishful thinking has been an immense factor in Rembrandt attribution. More than 1,000 paintings have been ascribed to Rembrandt, and they cannot all be by him. The reductionists' ax of the Rembrandt Research Project has fallen on paintings that no one with half an eye, after seeing this show, could go back to thinking of as Rembrandts: How did the light, high-colored, almost garish Feast of Esther by Jan Lievens, or the finicky execution of Gerrit Dou, ever get mistaken...