Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tooled to his own and Murphy's comic strengths. At its best, Martin's screen character is a dislocating combination of yearning and take-no-prisoners opportunism. He's like a premoral child--appalling yet somehow charming. Murphy has the comic nerve to play stardom as a form of flat-out psychosis. His sweet side surfaces in the second character he plays, Kit's brother Jiff, whom Bobby hires as a part-time gofer, part-time stunt double, full-time victim of everyone's heedlessness...
This political Elmer Gantry has been loose in the Iowa cornfields for weeks, making his speech after Forbes finishes his on flat tax and fortitude. Grubbs, an Iowan, is an example of the modern Iowa, which has become big-part yuppie, little-part farmers and small towners. But for all its struggle to be like California and Connecticut, most of Iowa's area remains farmland, and the crops underlie the economy. The biggest political pretenders must at some time or another take off their suit coats and go to the land where strange things can happen...
...FLAT-OUT FANTASTIC...
...starters, many economists doubt that huge tax cuts make sense at a time when the U.S. economy is running flat out after nearly nine years of expansion. Slashing taxes now "seems a little odd," says Cynthia Latta, principal U.S. economist for Standard & Poor's DRI. "Its support comes from the assumption that if [the surplus] is not handed back to taxpayers, the government will just use it for more programs." Latta's fellow critics include Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who warned last week that "the timing is not right" for the House measure, which calls for a 10% across...
Around the time when I could stand the bed-shaking no more, word-of-mouth got around to my ears, and I discovered that a single room (with a double bed!) had opened up in a clean and cozy flat. Once again, I packed up my bags. This time, however, I did not move in with strangers. I moved in with two Harvard students, who, like me, are spending their summers at career-related internships...