Word: decays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stupid-funny car crash, is the ideal medium to anatomize America's fetishizing of the automobile. And Cronenberg is the very guy for the job. His first commercial film, Fast Company, was about stock-car racing; his brilliant remake of The Fly was a parable of love, decay and death, of man misguidedly using machinery to transform himself...
...time he grew up and began calling himself by his mother's family name of Whittaker, his teeth had gone to memorable ruin. In his mouth, as in his early life's story, he came to believe that he harbored a tiny, secret civilization in a state of advanced decay...
Books are decaying rapidly today because "a tree had more to it than a cotton ball," says Merrill-Oldam. The problem is that wood contains lignin, the substance that causes newsprint even today to decay and yellow within a matter of weeks if left...
Rudenstine says that since climate control is only a temporary fix to the problem, the current challenge is to find a more efficient way either to treat the books themselves to prevent the decay or convert them to digital form...
Part of the delay is the nature of the problem. A movie documenting this crisis captures the nature of the decay in its title: "Slow Fires...