Word: debauch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...farmer, he is rooted in cycle. You, you are ill-concerned with repetition, and only aware of some fantastical march, quest, conquest,debauch. And, so you are aware of this manufactured process, and you act upon it. You run as if you were running toward something. But you are only running in circles...
Russia's immediate problem is its currency. The ruble is play money, testimony to John Maynard Keynes' observation that "the surest way" to destroy a government is to "debauch its currency." Thanks to an unrestrained government printing press run by Moscow's central bank (whose chairman is appointed by the parliament Yeltsin doesn't control), the ruble supply has tripled since last July. Now, with the inflation rate approaching 50% a month, no Westerner in his right mind would invest in Russia. For Yeltsin, says Michael Mandelbaum, the Johns Hopkins University professor who wrote the Clinton transition team's Russia...
...staring us in the face. There's always been a market for scary stories and vicarious acts of violence. But true horror can be bloodless, as in Henry James' matchless tale, The Turn of the Screw. Even reckless violence, as in the old-time western, need not debauch the human form. No, if offerings like American Psycho and The Silence of the Lambs have anything to tell us about ourselves, it must be that at this particular historical moment, we have come to hate the body...