Word: diminisher
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...MISER. Philip Bosco does everything one could ask in the title role of Moliere's satire, except the indispensable: lurch into believable love-struck madness when his cherished cashbox is stolen. Other actors in this Broadway revival swoop and flutter and generally diminish the text, save for splendidly real and moving bits by John Christopher Jones as a long-suffering servant and Adam Redfield as a splenetic...
With the Soviet decline and the emergence of a prosperous and uniting Europe, the U.S. contribution to the Continent's defense and political stability, while still important, will diminish. That is as it should be. The fact that the U.S. is standing aside as the Germans give economic aid to the Soviets (and the Japanese to China) may be read as a sign of reduced American means and influence. But it is also an overdue form of burden sharing that the U.S. has long urged and that must increasingly be carried beyond the present NATO area...
...motion forces that reduce the amount of rainfall in a given area. In a rain forest, for example, as much as half the moisture settles on trees and quickly evaporates into the sky, only to precipitate again in a continuous cycle. Thus when trees are cut down, rainfall may diminish...
...over, and a track meet is once again simply a track meet. While athletes and their coaches are as happy as anyone else about peace, the disappearance of the symbolic moral struggle has taken away a certain dramatic appeal -- and has led to pragmatic worry that subsidies will soon diminish. Both those concerns have been evident at the Goodwill Games in Seattle, which with 186 medal events in 21 sports is the first large-scale encounter between U.S. and Soviet athletes since the revolutions in Eastern Europe...
Milli Vanilli has so far survived the hilarious barbs of Arsenio Hall, + almost unanimous critical disdain and its own supercilious egotism to score a total of five Top Five singles. Even the hotly debated rumor that they don't do their own singing in live performance doesn't diminish their commercial luster. "If I'd heard the first Milli Vanilli record, I would have signed them," says Geffen Records president Ed Rosenblatt. Notes Jeff Gold, a vice president at Warner Bros. Records: "They may not be what I listen to when I go home, but they have good looks...