Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Somewhere along the line, drugs became a convenient escape route. She took the prescription drug Percodan for the ongoing heartbreak and pain, and she dropped LSD ritually for transcendent illumination. "Drugs became a way of blunting the sharpness of the juts. Juts-tapositioning oneself," she says. "I always wanted to blunt and blur what was painful. My idea was pain reduction and mind expansion, but I ended up with mind reduction and pain expansion." Her excesses eventually landed her in a hospital emergency ward, having her stomach pumped...
Fisher comes by her boldness genetically. Her grandmother is a marvelously blunt character who, after seeing the movie of Postcards, said loudly, "I don't know how they made such a great movie out of such a lousy book." And her legendary mother is feisty, circumspect, keen and nurturing. "It is always an interesting fight," says Fisher, "for the remaining chair in the musical chairs of who is going to get the focus in the room. But she always gets the chair because she is the mother." Fisher tilts toward her grandmother's wise grandeur and is currently at work...
Club officials said this week that the blunt-spoken Silber--who drew flak during the primary for controversial remarks about minorities, immigrants and the elderly, among others--has alienated so many campus Democrats that the group cannot endorse...
...talks have had two main goals: to blunt protectionist pressures and extend GATT's rules to such areas as agriculture, services, investments and intellectual-property rights. Fully half the nations involved would like to see a sharp cutback in the subsidies that rich countries pay their farmers at the expense of their own ability to trade agricultural commodities. Growers in the industrial countries reaped income and price supports to the tune of $250 billion last year. The European Community and the U.S. have been the worst offenders, with farm subsidies totaling $97 billion in the E.C. and $67 billion...
...political issue, it should be possible to do the same for education. If it is possible to make smoking despised, it should be possible for drug use. And it should be possible to refocus some civic crusades. The antitax movement was an important political force, but it was too blunt and undifferentiated. To reduce the excesses of government bureaucracy, it is not enough to curb its spending powers. It is far more important (and more difficult) to monitor performance and press for efficiency...