Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same time, the bottom had fallen out of the Massachusetts construction business in the late 1980s with the crash of the real estate market. Construction workers, who had thrived with the real estate boom, were suddenly unemployed in massive numbers...
...came to Harvard set on improving his game. At times, he wasn't so sure that Harvard was the best choice for his soccer career. But now he has a shot at a pro career, and everything seems to have fallen in place...
...Arby, no stranger to great expectations, carries the burden more lightly on his glorious Symphony or Damn, perhaps because he had already fallen such a far distance. His 1987 Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby demonstrated a surging talent. You could hear Marvin Gaye and Sam Cooke in his voice, the Beatles and Jimi Hendrix in his songs. D'Arby quickly got sidetracked from his talent and ensnared in hype, and his second album, full of the kind of brashness that comes from uncertainty, stiffed badly. Symphony or Damn was his last big chance...
...months later it had dropped by half. Clinton can reflect that the polls can just as easily bounce the other way: he has plenty of time to recover from his error-filled start. Still, intimates say Clinton has been "sobered" by "how fast and how far he has fallen." Though most of them continue to insist the President seems to enjoy tough challenges, his advisers say they can detect the stress. Says one confidant: "He says he is fine. But he doesn't sound fine...
Because they feature nearly the same geographic backwater, and the same sense of being in a region that has fallen out of time, Russo's comedies will be compared to William Kennedy's Albany series, Ironweed, Billy Phelan's Greatest Game and the rest. For now, Kennedy's writing is darker and grimmer, ^ and the resemblance is distant. Kennedy shows the skull beneath the skin; Russo gives us societal desiccation as farce...