Word: descending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small wonder that each year hundreds of college students head south for spring break. Overworked and pale, they descend on Dixie hoping to find their place...
...satellites at such low altitudes that they easily become vulnerable to premature return. (If an object is launched high enough to avoid the upper atmosphere's braking effects, it can orbit indefinitely, like the moon.) At times, in order to do closeup snooping, the Soviets let their satellites descend to as low as 100 miles, then boost them up with onboard rockets to prevent any further orbital "decay...
...headed south to Chiapas and Taxco. She also visited some of Mexico's most remote areas during the presidential campaign of Miguel de la Madrid and watched his helicopter fleet land, "no different in the eyes of the isolated villagers from seeing an Aztec god descend from the heavens." After a one-hour interview with the new President, Willwerth and López are optimistic that the recent mood of frankness will continue. De la Madrid's administration seems more open to the foreign press than that of his predecessor. But Willwerth remains cautious. Says he: "The real...
...does more than just rail against the ugliness of human relations. Her willingness to confront the seamy side of men and women's behavior makes her forgiving. By acknowledging human shortcomings they become less acute Ultimately. Atwood sees the elements of Elizabethan tragedy in modern life, you have to descend to the bottom of the wheel of fortune before you come...
Sequestering incompatible people on islands, in hotels or at roadside hash houses under duress is one of the hoariest devices known to drama. Vide, The Admirable Crichton, Grand Hotel and The Petrified Forest. The notion is that some transcendent revelation will descend on these characters as they sit and stew. The only revelation to be gleaned from the bulk of Lanford Wilson's plays, starting with The Hot I Baltimore, is that his characters are circusy clones of people originally conceived by William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams and William Inge. Their common plaint is that life has failed them, whereas...