Word: doomful
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...marriage Kerry and Edwards like to brag that they have the same position on the issue as Bush--they oppose it. But unlike Bush, they think states should be free to define marriage. Hence a Kerry victory would probably doom the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment. The amendment was already a long shot. It failed a vote in the Republican-led House of Representatives last month, and the TIME poll found that 54% of voters oppose the amendment, up from 46% just last summer...
...audience is instead treated to a moment of over-indulgent symbolism as the camera zooms in to the garage door to show each scientist boxed into his own window. It seems is if the director wants to tell us that the happy band of science geeks are doomed from the start, but, one hopes, his terrible process of doing so will doom his own filmmaking career...
...doom and gloom surrounding growing U.S. health-care costs continued last week, when a much watched survey of company health-insurance plans revealed a double-digit increase in family premiums for the fourth year in a row. Despite a slight pullback in the rate of growth, premiums over the past year jumped 11.2%, outpacing inflation and growth in wages by about five times. According to the survey, conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research and Educational Trust, that hike was equally borne by companies and employees, whose share of the costs rose an average 9.8% for singles...
...restive Havana in 1933, as well as late-'20s New York City. Though the city was booming, Evans was filled with ambivalence about a metropolis where billboards and skyscrapers jarred with the lowlife of the city's drifters. Torn Movie Poster, for example, captures Evans' wider sense of national doom: a mass-produced image tarnished with decay. The exhibition also shows off Evans' study of architecture in the American South...
...restive Havana in 1933, as well as late-'20s New York City. Though the city was booming, Evans was filled with ambivalence about a metropolis where billboards and skyscrapers jarred with the lowlife of the city's drifters. Torn Movie Poster, for example, captures Evans' wider sense of national doom: a mass-produced image tarnished with decay. The exhibition also shows off Evans' study of architecture in the American South. For Alvarez Bravo, it was Mexico City's postrevolution population boom in the '20s that afforded perfectly constructed images of street life, or what the photographer dubbed the "food...