Word: decays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Under the grotty gore of David Cronenberg's nifty horror comedy lurks something even more terrifying: a parable of a lover's fidelity, no matter how repulsive the physical decay, no matter how great the emotional sacrifice...
...WAITING for an interview with a noted expert at Harvard's School of Public Health on the spread of tooth decay among second-grade students, when I noticed the crumpled piece of paper on the ground next to the trash can. Good reporter that I am, I scooped...
...however, drags us through the long rise and fall of relationships at slow speed. If Kaplan wished to subject us to the real life agony of watching love decay, he came close, but he may have oveextended his dramatic resources. Act Two is largely humorless, and coming after the sharp first act makes the play seem far too long--it might do so even by itself. Though the acting does not falter, it is boring to watch, because it has less to convey. The character transitions are a little shaky as well. The ending is not so much a resolution...
Option C: Send in an undercover team to distribute free brownies, chocolate bars, candy corn, and other foodstuffs to the guilty parties in order to promote tooth decay and gum disease...
Conversely, if total control fails, what happens to single-minded direction? If totalitarianism can decay, can it not be transformed? We don't yet know. We know only that it can be modified. It can give way to a society with more space. How much? Writing 20 years ago, one of the great theorists of totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt, noted a "detotalitarization" in the Soviet Union after Stalin's death. This could not be dismissed as a temporary thaw, she argued. True, the Soviet Union has never since returned to the depths of Stalinism. But it has not moved significantly...