Word: descent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...entrancing in their vivid representation of the absurdities of love, liking and all the intermediate emotions. Chloe Leamon, however, was perhaps not an ideal choice for the part of Gloria. Leamon is entirely credible as a woman contemptuous of passion, but she fails to portray adequately Gloria's descent from feminism to femininity...
...same job division as in childbirth. Henry wrote a charming memoir of the couple's life together, We Thought We Could Do Anything, leaving out most of the bleak parts -- the alcoholism, the bitter fights that made their daughters beg the two to get a divorce, both parents' descent into mental illness. It was enough to make Nora, the eldest of the pair's four daughters, vow to put Hollywood, movies and screenwriting a full continent away from her own life. She became a journalist, a remote enough calling that "I thought it was like taking up carpentry...
...entirely understandable -- mistake. For the ruined doctor commits suicide, and his wife Peyton (Rebecca De Mornay) suffers both a miscarriage and a descent into madness as a result of the trauma. Assuming a false name and a false air of accommodation, she turns up at the Bartels', seeking work as a mother's helper. And, of course, revenge...
...bent entrepreneurs, that just calls for more persistence. When former AT&T sales executive Mary Poldruhi wanted to open a restaurant serving East European fare in Parma, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb, she turned to the telemarketing skills she had acquired at the telephone company. Poldruhi, who is of Polish descent, made cold calls to all the doctors and lawyers listed in the phone book whose surnames ended with such suffixes as -ski and -cz. She raised $240,000. "I would have called every -ski in the U.S. and Poland if I had to," she says. Her new restaurant is called...
...recession is not just a cyclical downturn, which would make it tolerable, but the harbinger of long- term decline. Maybe the bill for the cold war (or the Decade of Greed or the wages of sin -- pick your poison) has come due, and we are now beginning our inexorable descent. Maybe this is not America 1945 but Britain 1945: triumphant, exhausted and finished...