Word: diminisher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world has a surfeit of good actresses but damn few movie stars and that she is one of the rare modern avatars of the grand old radiance. Acting is easy, glamour is hard. But Stone wants more than to make sin chic. To increase her stature, she must diminish her luster. And so she has chosen the sort of caged-woman melodrama--but with a message--that, when Susan Hayward tried it in the 1958 I Want to Live!, won her an Oscar...
...good actresses but damn few movie stars and that she is one of the rare modern avatars of the grand old radiance," says TIME's Richard Corliss. "Acting is easy, glamour is hard." But Stone wants more than to make sin chic. To increase her stature, she must diminish her luster. And so she has chosen the sort of caged-woman melodrama?but with a message -->
...duplicates the body, with structural details matching every fundamental particle. In the age of artificial hearts and babies born from long-frozen embryos, it is also conceivable that such a "machine" will act as a sentient being capable of experiencing life just as does a human. But does that diminish the mystery and glory of consciousness? Does it change its unique place in the fundamental scheme of things in this universe? Can we ever objectively solve the mystery of consciousness through consciousness? MANI L. BHAUMIK Los Angeles...
...Daschle said the President told him he will. "If it's Friday, it must be time to pass another spending bill," says TIME's Karen Tumulty. "The Federal Government is just limping along and the closer we get to the election, the incentive to reach an agreement will diminish." Congressional negotiators will continue working on the broader spending bill, but Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Mark Hatfield says the short-term bill will remove the pressure to get the broader bill passed. The elusive spending bill would spend roughly $160 billion to fund federal departments and agencies in the final...
Each candidate had managed to diminish the others, and so they headed into the crucial last days just where they had been before, only less so. The debate produced no reckless pledges or memorable visions. By the time it was over, many sensed there had been a clear winner, and that it had been Bill Clinton...