Word: decays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beach I walk is like most others. The waves churn up the sounds of eternity; the sand speaks of ephemera and decay. I see all the usual symbols and have all the usual reactions. According to Nevil Shute, we were destined to destroy ourselves and wind up On the Beach, and may yet. The possibility seems remote tonight. This is more like Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach," on which the occurrence of an earth-jolting discovery awakens thoughts of self-examination, self-location, a touch of resolve...
...decay of Tyson's abilities is matched by the collapse of whatever remained of his reputation. For years, maybe too many years, Tyson has been boxing's feral child. Almost from the time that Cus D'Amato, his onetime trainer-father figure-psychic engineer, found him in upstate New York, the larger world has tried to put into some kind of balance the feelings Tyson inspires: awe, admiration, pity, disappointment, fear and loathing. By the time the sportswriters, columnists and comics were done with him last week, the balance was tipped against him more completely than ever. At the Hollywood...
Keyes' voice resounded loudly and clearly during his bid last year for the Republican presidential nomination. While critics on the left accused him of mixing religion and politics, his conservative backers lauded him for focusing the presidential-campaign lens on the far-reaching effects of America's moral decay...
...willfully blind one as well--to think that the big energies of American Modernism are still with us. Which is not to say that there are not plenty of gifted and interesting visual artists in America, doing valuable work at the end of the 20th century. But cultures do decay and run out of steam; and the visual culture of late American Modernism, once so strong, buoyant and inventive, and now so harassed by its own sense of defeated expectations, may be no exception to that fact. Modern art was institutionalized almost as soon as it arrived in America...
...years. We're living longer, breathing cleaner air, drinking cleaner water. Crime is in free fall, with violent evildoing near a 22-year low, and the downtowns we once gave up for dead are bristling with coffee bars, green markets, life. New York City, that trusty symbol of terminal decay, is bloated no more. It boasts America's sharpest drop in crime, a rekindled economy and--mirabile dictu!--an $800 million budget surplus. Out in the suburbs, our gardens are costly and ambitious, and shiny grills are taking up residence on our new redwood decks. The statisticians assure...