Word: decays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With some artists, death is only a ratification of decay: it releases them from the humiliations of their late careers. So it was with Salvador Dali, who when he died last week at 84 was perhaps the archetype of that 20th century phenomenon, the Embarrassing Genius. He was the first modern artist to exploit fully the mechanism of publicity. He appropriated the idea of the artist as demonic obsessive. He dealt with the question Why should your fantasies matter? by insisting that he was such an extraterrestrial creature, so tuned to the zeitgeist through the trembling antennas of his waxed...
From the political master he served loyally for eight years, Bush has come to appreciate the value of symbolism. By now it is innate: telegraphing decay is not the way to lead the free world. So it was that last Friday the new President said, "We know how to secure a more just and prosperous life for man on earth," the accuracy of his certitude being irrelevant to the occasion. He even looked good doing it. "I can't explain it," Barbara Bush once said, "but . . . the camera shrinks him and makes him seem small." Not last week. Perhaps...
...United States is to avoid becoming a hegemon in decay, set toward an ignominious end, we must shape a new policy--above all towards NATO," writes David Calleo in a recent issue of New Perspectives Quarterly...
...greater protection against violent crime. The expression was made popular by ex-President Richard M. Nixon and resurrected by Vice President George Bush. Nixon used the term "law and order" to create fear of race riots, rather than addressing the deep social problems--such as poverty and urban decay--that helped cause the riots. George Bush also used the issue of "law and order" for cheap political advantage. Bush fomented racial hatred and planted the seeds of terrifying nightmares of evil black rapists climbing in the windows of suburban homes. This is BLATANT RACISM...
...four of these tax hikes would hit. Total: an extra $1,800 ($1,300 filing jointly). But look how much better he'd sleep knowing the economy was headed for solid ground, his investments were likely to gain, and his grandkids likely to inherit a prosperous economy rather than decay, debt and decline...